About Glynn Capital
Glynn Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1974. It is primarily based out of Menlo Park, United States. As of Mar 2025, Glynn Capital is an active investor, having invested in 102 companies, with 3 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series D round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it led the $55M Series B round of Stitch along with Ribbit Capital. This round also saw participation from QED Investors and other investors.
Overall, Glynn Capital portfolio has seen 24 unicorns, 21 IPOs and 37 acquisitions including key companies like Facebook, Salesforce and Slack. A lot of funds co-invest with Glynn Capital, with names like Founders Fund sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
Glynn Capital has team of 22 people including 12 partners.
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Glynn Capital's List of Top Investments
Glynn Capital has a portfolio of 102 companies, including 24 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in Thehive and JustAnswer.Their portfolio spans across United States, United Kingdom, IrelandÌý²¹²Ô»å 4 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise InfrastructureÌý²¹²Ô»å 22 other sectors, across stages such as Series C, Series D Ìý²¹²Ô»å 6 more. Here is the list of top investments by Glynn Capital:
1. Facebook
Provider of online social networking and related services. It offers a platform for users to connect with friends and family, share information, and engage in various online activities. The company provides tools for communication, including messaging and video calls. Additional services encompass photo and video sharing, and the development of related applications and technologies. It also offers advertising services to businesses.
Key facts about Facebook
- Founded Year: 2004
- Location: Menlo Park (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $13.5B as on Dec 31, 2023
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $2.27B
- Employee Count: 67,317 as on Dec 31, 2023
- Investors: Vulcan Capital, Hercules Capital and 111 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Grant (prize money), Jan 15, 2017, $490
- Highlight: Public
2. Salesforce
Cloud based CRM and social collaboration solutions for enterprises. The platform offers an enterprise cloud computing company that provides business software on a subscription basis. It offers products catering to the sales, service, and marketing needs of enterprises through the cloud and mobile app. In addition to CRM tools, it also offers analytics, and forecasting, collaboration tools. It provides collaboration services such as sharing knowledge, task management, and connecting employees with files and data.
Key facts about Salesforce
- Founded Year: 1999
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $34.9B as on Jan 31, 2024
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $52M
- Employee Count: 76,453 as on Jan 31, 2025
- Investors: Elliott Management, Credit Suisse and 33 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, May 23, 2023
- Highlight: Public
3. Slack
AI interfaced encrypted team messaging platform for enterprises. It offers an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate. It provides software for communication options, including chat, audio and video clips, live huddles, asynchronous collaboration, engagement, and meetings. It also offers tools to create conversational channels, share files, record screens, projects, and goals management, and create audio and video clips.
Key facts about Slack
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $903M as on Jan 31, 2021
- Last Known Valuation: $23B as on Jun 20, 2019
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $1.22B
- Employee Count: 1,820 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Glynn Capital, TeleSoft Partners and 68 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Apr 16, 2020, $863M
- Highlight: Acquired
4.
Payment processing and card issuance solutions for businesses. It offers solutions such as payment gateways, hardware-based POS terminals, billing and subscription payments, and more. It also offers financial services such as the issuance of corporate cards, business financing, and more.
Key facts about Stripe
- Founded Year: 2009
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Annual Revenue: 371M SGD as on Dec 31, 2023
- Valuation: $91.5B as on Feb 27, 2025
- Stage: Series I
- Total Funding till date: $9.81B
- Employee Count: 5,904 as on Dec 31, 2023
- Investors: Glynn Capital, Silver Lake and
- Latest Funding Round: Series I, Apr 08, 2024, $694M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Redfin
Online brokerage solution for residential properties. The platform provides users with homes for sale and sale-by-owner properties. Provides MLS listing information with historical data into a single map. It offers services including analytics, sales center management, marketing, branding, targeted e-mailers, and more.
Key facts about Redfin
- Founded Year: 2004
- Location: Seattle (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $977M as on Dec 31, 2023
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $166M
- Employee Count: 5,572 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Vulcan Capital, Glynn Capital and 19 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Oct 14, 2020, $525M
- Highlight: Acquired
Glynn Capital's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Glynn Capital has invested in 102 companies over the last 22 years, with an average of 5 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2024, it made 2 investments, while as of Mar 2025, it has made 1 investment in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Stitch and most recent follow-on round was in Chronosphere.
Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1stÌý¸é´Ç³Ü²Ô»å | Follow-on | Total | |
2025 (YTD) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2022 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2021 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
2020 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
2019 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2017 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
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Glynn Capital's Investments by Stage
Glynn Capital is primarily an Late Stage Investor investor majorly investing in Series C (19) rounds where average round size is $1.33B, Series D (18) rounds where average round size is $1.99B and Series B (12) rounds where average round size is $503M.Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series C | 19 |
Series D | 18 |
Series B | 12 |
Series A | 8 |
Series E | 4 |
Others | 6 |
Glynn Capital's Investments by Sector
Glynn Capital has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, Enterprise Infrastructure, High Tech and Vertical SaaS. Notably, it has invested in 100 Tech companies, 74 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 68 Software companies and at least 54 companies focusing on Saas.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
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Enterprise Applications | 50 |
Consumer | 16 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 15 |
High Tech | 13 |
Vertical SaaS | 12 |
Others | 56 |
Glynn Capital's Investments by Geography
Glynn Capital has made most investments in United States (64), followed by Israel where it has made 1 investment.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 64 |
Israel | 1 |
Netherlands | 1 |
Nigeria | 1 |
South Africa | 1 |
Glynn Capital's recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by Glynn Capital:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Mar 25, 2025 | South Africa | Series B | $55M | The Raba Partnership [+6] | |
Dec 27, 2024 | United States | Series C | $100M | Morgan Stanley [+14] | |
Nov 06, 2024 | United States | Series B | $40M | XYZ Venture Capital [+2] | |
Aug 29, 2023 | United States | Series B | $44M | Icon Ventures [+4] | |
Jan 06, 2023 | United States | Series C | $115M | Google Ventures [+12] |
Get the detailed list of all investments by Glynn Capital. Download now!Unicorns in Glynn Capital's Portfolio
Here is a list of unicorns in Glynn Capital's portfolio:
ÃØÃÜÑо¿Ëù Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
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71 | Company providing a digital platform that enables users to search and book events | 2009 | New York City | Series E | oafyhmo | ||
65 | Provider of cloud based relational database for enterprises | 2011 | San Francisco | Series F | xeeoznr | ||
47 | E-commerce and channel sales management platform | 2017 | Bellevue | Series C | tlaqkgd | ||
59 | Cloud-based big data warehouse for enterprise data management | 2019 | Tel Aviv | Series C | lnlehfu | ||
67 | Cloud based IT infrastructure monitoring software | 2012 | Redwood City | Series E | tdthfrc |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Glynn Capital's Portfolio
Here are Glynn Capital's portfolio companies that went public:
Acquired companies in Glynn Capital's Portfolio
Here are Glynn Capital's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Team profile of Glynn Capital
Glynn Capital has a team of 22 membersÌýincluding 12 Partners and 6 PrincipalsÌýlocated in United States. Glynn Capital's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Glynn Capital:
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Partner | San Francisco | - | - | |
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Over the past 22 years, 783 investors have co-invested in Glynn Capital's portfolio companies.
- Invested before Glynn Capital:ÌýGreylock, Accel and 391 others have invested in rounds before Glynn Capital. There are 12 companies where Greylock has invested before Glynn Capital and 11 companies where Accel has invested before Glynn Capital.
- Top Co-investors of Glynn Capital:Ìý176 investors entered a company along with Glynn Capital. These include investors like Founders Fund (5 companies).
- Invested after Glynn Capital:ÌýA total of 214 investors have invested in Glynn Capital's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Morgan Stanley (4 companies), BlackRock (4 companies) and Insight Partners (3 companies).
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