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Third Rock Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2007 · Active in 2026

Third Rock Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2007. The page below shows 23 Power Law outcomes from Third Rock Ventures's portfolio — 15 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Germany. Third Rock ranks #456 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

23 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #456 · Global · 23 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 15% 5y
15
Decacorns ↑ 100% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds → 0% 5y
10
01 · Exits

Third Rock’s biggest exits.

Third Rock 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.

$1.4B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $30.5B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $13.1B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $8.2B
$443M IPO · 2017
Entered Series ANow $5.8B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $5.3B
$2.7B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $2.7B
$167M IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $2.6B
$1.7B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $2.3B
$2.2B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series A
Candid Therapeutics
$2.0B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
$150M IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $1.7B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $1.6B
$720M IPO · 2020
Now $1.3B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 23 Third Rock Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA22
  2. Germany1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences23
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+4
  2. Series A15
04 · Portfolio market map

Third Rock's 23 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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23 of 23 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Third Rock stack up?

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

27 founders across the 23 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Harvard University and Five Prime Therapeutics are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States10
Sweden1
Germany1
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UniversityCount
Harvard University3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania1
Stanford University School of Medicine1
Michigan State University1
Yale University1
The University of Chicago1
University of Washington Medical Center1
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Origin companyCount
Five Prime Therapeutics1
Orbitz1
Cloudera1
NexTag1
Flipkart1
cult.fit1
Blueprint Medicines1
Aragon Pharmaceuticals1
SAGE Therapeutics1
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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 Third Rock.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Third Rock Ventures

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

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

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