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Tenaya Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026

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35 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #449 · Global · 35 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 7% 5y
30
Decacorns ↓ 50% 5y
1
Thoroughbreds ↑ 26% 5y
30

Tenaya Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2009. The page below shows 35 Power Law outcomes from Tenaya Capital's portfolio — 30 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Marketing · Other B2B Software · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · China. Tenaya ranks #449 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 35 Tenaya Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA32
  2. China3
By sectorCount
  1. Marketing8
  2. Other B2B Software7
  3. Cybersecurity6
  4. Fintech3
  5. Health Tech & Medtech3
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  7. Other2
  8. Edtech1
  9. AI1
  10. Transportation1
  11. Food1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+32
  2. Series A3
01 · Portfolio market map

Tenaya's 35 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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35 of 35 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

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

63 founders across the 35 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States23
India20
Israel9
Canada2
Taiwan2
China1
Italy1
France1
Ukraine1
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UniversityCount
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay4
Technion Israel Institute of Technology3
Stanford University3
University of California, San Diego3
Tel Aviv University2
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev2
University of California, Santa Barbara2
Cornell University2
Dartmouth College2
Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya1
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Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google4
Yahoo!3
Castlight Health2
Salesforce2
Apple2
Riviera Partners1
Presto Phoenix1
Amazon1
Network for Good1
Microsoft1
+11 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 Tenaya.

Senior investment team at Tenaya Capital has not been published on this profile yet.
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04 · Compare with peers

How does Tenaya stack up?

Tenaya 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.

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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

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 Tenaya Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tenaya 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 Tenaya Capital

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