41 holdings with a confirmed first-investment year
NOT PUBLIC DATA
VC firms don't publish their profits. Fund returns (IRR, gains, losses) are private, shared only with the firm's own investors. What follows instead is the closest honest picture: real, verified early bets these firms made - and how those bets have performed as public stocks, once the company went public. Type in today's price for any holding to see it update.
Rankings: firms are ordered by assets under management (AUM), highest to lowest. AUM figures are approximate - venture firms round these numbers in public statements, and totals shift as new funds are raised. Treat the ranking as a snapshot of relative scale, not a precise or constantly current figure.
What Is The Power Score™?
The Power Score™ is The VC Power Board's proprietary rating system that measures the overall influence, performance, and impact of a venture capital firm within the U.S. venture capital ecosystem.
Unlike rankings based solely on assets under management or unicorn investments, the Power Score™ combines multiple factors to provide a more complete picture of a firm's long-term strength, influence, and industry significance.
Every score is calculated using The VC Power Board's independent methodology and is updated as new information becomes available.
What Does The Power Score™ Measure?
Portfolio Performance
Success of current and past investments, including unicorns, IPOs, acquisitions, and category-leading companies.
Industry Influence
Reputation, leadership, thought leadership, and overall impact on the venture capital ecosystem.
Investment Activity
Consistency, quality, and breadth of investments across sectors and stages.
Fund Strength
Fundraising history, scale of capital managed, institutional stability, and long-term presence.
Founder Appeal
Overall attractiveness to founders based on reputation, network, operational support, and founder experience.
Innovation & Market Leadership
Ability to identify emerging technologies, invest in transformative companies, and remain at the forefront of venture capital.
These categories are combined using The VC Power Board's proprietary methodology to generate a single Power Score™ between 0 and 100.
Understanding The Power Score™
95–100
Legendary
Industry-defining venture capital firms with extraordinary influence, exceptional long-term performance, and global recognition.
90–94
Elite
Among the world's premier venture capital firms with outstanding portfolios and significant market influence.
85–89
Premier
Highly respected firms with excellent investment performance, strong brands, and consistent long-term success.
80–84
Established
Major venture firms with proven track records and meaningful influence across multiple industries.
75–79
Respected
Well-known firms with strong portfolios and solid standing within the venture ecosystem.
70–74
Strong
Established firms demonstrating consistent investment success and growing industry recognition.
65–69
Developing
Firms with notable achievements and continued growth but less overall influence than higher-ranked peers.
Below 65
Emerging
Newer, specialized, or niche firms showing promise while still building broader industry impact.
Important Note
The Power Score™ is not a prediction of future investment returns or financial performance.
Instead, it is designed to measure a firm's overall standing, influence, and historical impact within the venture capital industry using publicly available information and The VC Power Board's proprietary evaluation framework.
As markets evolve, portfolios mature, and new investments are made, Power Scores™ may change over time.
The Philosophy Behind The Power Score™
The Power Score™ is designed to answer one question: "How influential and powerful is this venture capital firm within today's venture capital ecosystem?"
Rather than measuring a single statistic, the Power Score™ combines performance, reputation, investment success, founder appeal, and long-term industry impact into one comprehensive rating.
Firm & Leadership Inclusion Criteria
Every firm and partner on The VC Power Board is held to the same standard: real, sourced, checkable data - or left blank. Nothing here is estimated, assumed, or inferred to fill a gap.
For a Firm
Real founding year - confirmed via the firm's own site, Wikipedia, or a credible news source.
Real headquarters - current, not historical.
Real AUM/fund size - must be a sourced, dated figure (e.g., "$1.2B, 2023 fund close"); if no solid number exists, it's better left out than estimated.
Real sector focus - based on the firm's own stated thesis/website, not assumed from portfolio alone.
Real thesis - grounded in what the firm actually says about itself, not invented positioning.
Real, currently-public holdings only - a company only counts if (a) the firm actually invested in it and (b) it's still trading publicly today under a real ticker; anything acquired, delisted, or still private doesn't belong here.
Real current leadership - actual names and titles as of now, verified via the firm's own team page where possible.
Real dated milestones (if included) - fund closes, major exits, founding events, each with a verifiable date.
For a Partner
Real current title and firm.
Real join year - only if a source actually confirms it; otherwise left blank rather than guessed.
Real education - actual degrees and institutions, not assumed from career trajectory.
Real previous roles - actual employers and titles, in the order they really happened.
Real prior-firm links (firmHistory) - only included when a previous employer is a firm also verifiably on this site, confirmed by name match, not inferred.
Real board seats - only currently-held, confirmed seats; left empty if unconfirmed.
Real exit/IPO counts - only if an actual sourced number exists (e.g., a bio explicitly states "led 5 IPOs"); otherwise null.
Real dated career milestones - each one needs an actual event that happened, with a year if it's known and honestly left blank if it isn't.
Real biography - a short synthesis of only what's actually been sourced, not embellishment or inference about their impact/reputation.
Real sources - actual URLs for anything substantive, so every claim is checkable.
Why This Matters
A firm being large or well-known doesn't automatically mean it or its partners have complete data here. Coverage depth reflects research completed, not firm prestige - which is also why two firms of similar size, or two partners at the same firm, can have very different levels of detail on this page.
Portfolio companies: each firm's listed holdings are early-stage investments that are publicly confirmed - either by the firm itself, by the company's own IPO/SEC filings, or by reputable financial reporting. Only companies that are now publicly traded are shown, since that's the only way to verify a real, checkable return.
Each firm's own website (linked on its card above) was also used directly to confirm its founding year, headquarters, and stated investment focus.
Partner investment attribution
An investment appears on a partner's profile only when a public source names that person against that company - a firm's own team page, the partner's official biography, or a financing announcement. Employment at the investing firm is never treated as attribution. Round stages and dates come from financing announcements, never from company age or check size; sectors follow the same taxonomy used for firms. Where a fact cannot be sourced it is left blank, so percentages are always computed over the investments where the detail is known, with the sample size shown. Partner-versus-firm comparisons are only drawn over the same time period on both sides, and are hidden entirely when no fair comparison is possible. Power Board does not claim complete knowledge of any investor's record: "publicly attributable" means exactly that.