Investor profile

StartCaps Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026

StartCaps Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Spain, founded in 2011. The page below shows 4 Power Law outcomes from StartCaps Ventures's portfolio — 4 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Transportation · Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are USA · Brazil · Colombia. StartCaps ranks #451 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

4 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #451 · Global · 4 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026

Unicorns ↑ 33% 5y

Decacorns → 5y

Thoroughbreds ↓ 33% 5y

Featured in #451Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 3%

01 · Exits

StartCaps’ biggest exits.

StartCaps portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$1.0B acquisition · 2018

Entered Seed

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 4 StartCaps Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount

USA2
Brazil1
Colombia1

By sectorCount

Transportation2
Fintech1
eCommerce & Marketplaces1

By stage enteredCount

Seed4

04 · Portfolio market map

StartCaps's 4 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered

Outcome tier

Region

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4 of 4 Power Law outcomes

05 · Power Law comparison

How does StartCaps stack up?

StartCaps in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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.

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Share of new unicorns per year

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

Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.

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Entry stage

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.

06 · Portfolio founders

Where StartCaps' portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

6 founders across the 4 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Carnegie Mellon University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount

United States6

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UniversityCount

Carnegie Mellon University2

Central Connecticut State University1

Berkeley1

New York University1

Princeton University1

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Origin companyCount

Alphabet | Google1

Zynga1

Asana1

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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.

07 · Key people

Key people at StartCaps.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about StartCaps Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about StartCaps 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 StartCaps Ventures

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

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