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Social Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026

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32 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #82 · Global · 32 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 25% 5y
25
Decacorns ↑ 100% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 82% 5y
20

Social Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, USA, founded in 2011. The page below shows 32 Power Law outcomes from Social Capital's portfolio — 25 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Indonesia. Social Capital ranks #82 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 32 Social Capital Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA27
  2. UK2
  3. Indonesia1
  4. Canada1
  5. Brazil1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech8
  2. Other B2B Software5
  3. Marketing4
  4. Health Tech & Medtech3
  5. Edtech2
  6. Food2
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  8. Energy1
  9. AI1
  10. Other1
  11. Space1
  12. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+7
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed8
01 · Portfolio market map

Social Capital's 32 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
32 of 32 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Social Capital's founders come from — and where they study.

87 founders across the 32 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Yahoo! are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States42
Brazil12
South Africa9
Palestine6
Canada5
India2
Russia1
China1
United Kingdom1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University11
University of Oxford5
Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
Harvard Business School3
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign3
Federal University of Minas Gerais2
University of Campinas2
Washington University in St. Louis2
New York University2
Berkeley2
+35 more →
Origin companyCount
Yahoo!9
Meta6
Microsoft5
Alphabet | Google4
PayPal3
Juniper Networks3
AVG2
Yammer2
Airbnb2
Yelp2
+36 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Social Capital.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
04 · Compare with peers

How does Social Capital stack up?

Social Capital in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Social Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Social Capital on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Social Capital

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Social Capital — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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