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Venrock
Venture capital firm · Founded 1969 · Active in 2026
Venrock is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1969. The page below shows 87 Power Law outcomes from Venrock's portfolio — 69 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Cybersecurity · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Denmark · Germany. Venrock ranks #56 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
The 87 Venrock Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA78
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Denmark2
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Germany2
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Canada1
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Mexico1
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Netherlands1
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China1
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UK1
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Biotech & Life Sciences47
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Cybersecurity8
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Health Tech & Medtech7
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Other6
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Other B2B Software5
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Marketing5
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Transportation3
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Fintech3
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Space2
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Energy1
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Series B+41
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Series A28
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Seed4
Venrock's 87 Power Law outcomes.
Where Venrock's founders come from — and where they study.
134 founders across the 87 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Endeca are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Venrock.
How does Venrock stack up?
Venrock 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsSentiment on X
What X is saying about Venrock
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Venrock 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 Venrock
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