Investor profile

Tekton Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2008 · Active in 2026

Tekton Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2008. The page below shows 9 Power Law outcomes from Tekton Ventures's portfolio — 8 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Other; top portfolio geographies are USA · Nigeria · Brazil. Tekton ranks #285 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

9 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #285 · Global · 9 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026

Unicorns ↑ 60% 5y

Decacorns → 0% 5y

Thoroughbreds ↑ 100% 5y

Featured in #285Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 2%

01 · Exits

Tekton’s biggest exits.

Tekton 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.

Coupang

$60.0B IPO · 2021

Entered SeedNow $28.0B

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 9 Tekton Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount

USA5
Nigeria1
Brazil1
Mexico1
South Korea1

By sectorCount

Fintech4
eCommerce & Marketplaces3
Other1
Cybersecurity1

By stage enteredCount

Series B+2
Series A2
Seed5

04 · Portfolio market map

Tekton's 9 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered

Outcome tier

Region

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9 of 9 Power Law outcomes

05 · Power Law comparison

How does Tekton stack up?

Tekton 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.

Compare against

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 Tekton's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

31 founders across the 9 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Mackenzie Presbiterian University and PayPal are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount

Brazil16

Uruguay4

China4

Argentina3

United States2

India1

Mexico1

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UniversityCount

Mackenzie Presbiterian University3

Xiamen University3

Harvard Business School3

University of São Paulo2

Getulio Vargas Foundation2

Universidad ORT Uruguay1

University of Belgrade1

Colégio Presbiteriano Mackenzie1

São Paulo State University1

Universidade Federal de Itajubá1

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Origin companyCount

PayPal3

Meta2

Uber2

Globant1

Model N1

eBay1

Marqeta1

Victoria Beckham1

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty1

SAP1

+1 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.

07 · Key people

Key people at Tekton.

Jai Choi

Co-founder/Managing Partner

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Tekton Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tekton 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

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Latest news about Tekton Ventures

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