Where is Idealab's headquarters located?

Idealab's headquarters is located in Pasadena (United States).

How big is Idealab's investment team?

Idealab has a team of 21, including 12 partners.

How many companies has Idealab invested in?

Idealab has invested in 126 companies, including Coinbase & PayPal.

Which companies has Idealab invested in lately?

Tuned & Aptera Motors are the latest investments by Idealab.

How many exits has Idealab been involved in?

Idealab's portfolio has seen 15 IPOs and 34 acquisitions.

How many unicorns are there in Idealab's portfolio?

There is 1 unicorn in Idealab's portfolio.

Idealab - 2026 Investor Profile, Portfolio, Team & Investment Trends

Idealab, an accelerator and incubator program founded in 1996, is based in Pasadena, United States. With a presence in 9 countries, it has supported around 126 startups in sectors like Enterprise Applications, Consumer. As of Aug 2026, Idealab has 1 unicorn under its belt and has witnessed 49 portfolio exits. Most notable companies in its portfolio include Coinbase, PayPal and Twilio. The program is backed by a team of 21 people who primarily support Seed startups based in United States. Its latest investment was a $2.5M Seed round in Tuned on Sep 19, 2022 along with Elements Health Ventures.

Key Metrics

Founded Year

1996

Location

Pasadena, United States

Portfolio Companies

Coinbase, PayPal & 124 more

Sectors of Investment

Enterprise Applications, Consumer & 30 more

Stages of Investment

Seed, Series A & 4 more

Locations of Investment

United States, India & 7 more

Unicorn in Portfolio

Fair

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Idealab has a portfolio of 126 companies, one of which is a Unicorn. Their most notable investments are in Cheese and eSolar.Their portfolio spans across United States, India, United Kingdom and 6 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, High Tech and 29 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A and 4 more. Here is the list of top investments by Idealab:

1. Coinbase

Online platform for crypto portfolio. It offers solutions for consumers such as regular trading platforms, wallets for storing cryptocurrencies, crypto exchanges, USD-backed stable coins, and more. It also provides solutions for businesses such as custodian services, crypto-based payment acceptance solutions, and more.

Key facts about Coinbase

Founded Year: 2012
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Dec 31, 2025
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $547M
Employee Count: 7,383 as on Jun 30, 2026
Investors: TrueBridge, K2 Global and 148 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Aug 13, 2021, $*****
Highlight: Public

2. PayPal

Provider of online payment solutions, money transfers, and virtual wallets. It facilitates online transactions for individuals and businesses. It offers tools for online checkout, payment links, and invoicing. The platform provides risk management, dispute management, and reporting tools. It allows users to send and receive payments.

Key facts about PayPal

Founded Year: 1998
Location: United States
Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Dec 31, 2025
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $216M
Employee Count: 37,012 as on Jun 30, 2026
Investors: Alcor Fund, Goldman Sachs and 29 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 26, 2022, $*****
Highlight: Public

3. Twilio

Cloud based omnichannel communication and customer engagement platform. The platform offers a telephony infrastructure web service in the cloud, allowing web developers to integrate phone calls, text messages, and IP voice communications into the web, mobile, and traditional phone applications. It provides customer data platform that allows users to collect data from different channels, and manage the customer journeys in real time. It caters its solution to industries such as reatil, finance, healthcare, and more.

Key facts about Twilio

Founded Year: 2008
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Dec 31, 2025
Stage: Public
Total Funding till date: $240M
Employee Count: 7,442 as on Jun 30, 2026
Investors: TCV, TrueBridge and 40 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jul 31, 2021, $*****
Highlight: Public

4. Tenor

GIF keyboard platform bringing personality to conversations through animated content. It is a platform where users can explore, discover, and share animated GIFs to express themselves. It offers a vast library of reaction GIFs and trending content, accessible through its GIF Keyboard on Android. The platform partners with content creators, movie studios, TV networks, game publishers, and sports leagues to enhance mobile communication. It provides APIs, including the Tenor GIF API and Unity AR SDK, for integration into other applications. The company aims to define a new visual language for mobile users, making it easy to find and share the right GIF across devices. It is a B2C tech company offering a software solution for enhancing digital conversations.

Key facts about Tenor

Founded Year: 2014
Location: San Francisco (United States)
Stage: Acquired
Total Funding till date: $32M
Employee Count: 65 as on Mar 31, 2026
Investors: Tenaya Capital, Menlo Ventures and 7 Others
Latest Funding Round: Series B, 2017, $*****
Highlight: Acquired

5. Intercontinental Exchange

Provider of digital exchange, market data, and commodity price solutions. This company offers end-to-end platforms for trading, price discovery, capital raising, indexing, and clearing across multiple asset classes including commodities such as oil, natural gas, power, and coal. It digitizes key financial and physical commodity markets to increase efficiency and reduce costs. The firm delivers high-quality, market-leading data and analytics to support informed decision-making for market participants. It also focuses on streamlining processes like mortgage digitization to enhance operational workflows.

Key facts about Intercontinental Exchange

Founded Year: 1999
Location: Atlanta (United States)
Annual Revenue: $1B+ as on Dec 31, 2025
Stage: Public
Employee Count: 11,537 as on Mar 31, 2026
Investors: EverGreen Capital Management, Idealab and 2 Others
Latest Funding Round: Post IPO, Jun 22, 2022, $*****
Highlight: Public

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Idealab has invested in 127 companies over the last 27 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 10 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Tuned and most recent follow-on round was in Cheese.

Here are Idealab's Year-on-Year Investment Trends:

Year	No. of Investments
Year	1^st Round	Follow-on	Total
2026 (YTD)	0	0	0
2025	0	0	0
2024	0	0	0
2023	0	0	0
2022	2	0	2
2021	2	1	3
2020	0	0	0
2019	2	0	2

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Idealab has made 18 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $1.77M, 11 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $11.5M and 7 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $37.8M.

Here are Idealab's investments by stage:

Stage of entry	No. of Investments
Seed	18
Series A	11
Series B	7
Series C	5
Post IPO	1
Others	1

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Idealab has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Consumer, High Tech, Media & Entertainment and Environment Tech. Notably, it has invested in 86 Tech companies, 55 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 53 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 50 companies focusing on Software.

Here are Idealab's investments by sector:

Sector	No. of Investments
Enterprise Applications	13
Consumer	11
High Tech	6
Media & Entertainment	6
Environment Tech	5
Others	41

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Idealab has made most investments in United States (33), followed by India where it has made 2 investments.

Here are Idealab's investments by geography:

Country	No. of Investments
United States	33
India	2
Belgium	1
Israel	1
Libya	1
Others	2

Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments

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Idealab has not made any investment in 2026 so far.

Here are the most recent investments by Idealab:

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Date	Company	Location	Round Details	Round Amount	Co-Investors
Sep 19, 2022	Tuned	United States	Seed	7484	Elements Health Ventures
Jun 06, 2022	Aptera Motors	United States	Series B	2632	Google [+3]
Oct 19, 2021	CarbonCapture	United States	Series A	5086	Prime Movers Lab [+1]
Aug 25, 2021	Energy Vault	Switzerland	Post IPO	5916	Prime Movers Lab [+6]
Mar 11, 2021	Cheese	United States	Seed	9264	iFly [+6]

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Idealab has 1 unicorn in its portfolio - Fair. The most recent unicorn in their portfolio is Fair which became a unicorn in 2018, 7 years before Idealab first invested in it.

Here is a list of unicorns in Idealab's portfolio:

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Tracxn Score	Company	Short Description	Founded year	Sector	Location	Company Stage	First Investment/ Acquisition Details
63	Fair	App-based platform to lease cars	2016	Consumer [+2]	Santa Monica	Series B	bcaikgo

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15 of Idealab's portfolio companies have become public. Aptera Motors got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ), in Oct 2025 at marketcap of undefined and Coinbase got listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) at marketcap of $28.7B.

Here are Idealab's portfolio companies that went public:

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Company	IPO Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Aptera Motors	Oct 16, 2025	Jun 06, 2022	Series B	1944
Coinbase	Apr 14, 2021	-	-	9144
Energy Vault	Apr 01, 2021	Aug 25, 2021	Post IPO	7193
Candy Club	Feb 19, 2019	-	-	1048
Twilio	Jun 23, 2016	-	-	6149

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34 companies from Idealab's portfolio have been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Heliogen in May 2025 by Zeo Energy for $*****.

Here are Idealab's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:

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Company	Acquisition Date	First Invested on	First Round of Investment	Round Size
Heliogen	May 29, 2025	-	-	6927
HelloTech	Jun 24, 2024	Jan 23, 2019	Series B	9406
Utility	Nov 13, 2023	Nov 14, 2000	Series C	8665
Gem	Mar 09, 2022	Sep 17, 2014	Seed	2179
codeSpark	May 25, 2021	Sep 29, 2016	Seed	9872

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Idealab has a team of 21 members including 12 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 3 Principals located in United States and South Africa. Idealab's team sits on the board of 1 company.

Here is a list of top team members in Idealab:

Name	Designation	Location	Board Memberships	Contact Details
Marcia Goodstein	Partner	Pasadena	X1	1 Email
Tom Hughes	Partner	Boston	-	1 Email
Bill Gross	Partner	-	-	2 Emails
Marcee Kleinman	Partner	Los Angeles	-	1 Email
Eman Hashem Safadi	Partner	Los Angeles	-	-
Charlene Munilall	Partner	Johannesburg	-	-
Renée LaBran	Partner	-	-	1 Email
M R Apparao	Partner	-	-	-
Bolarinwa Abolade	Partner	-	-	-
Sanja Stanojevic	Partner	-	-	-
Jonathan Hull	Partner	Los Angeles	-	1 Email

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Over the past 27 years, 236 investors have co-invested in Idealab's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.

Invested before Idealab: OSTI, Deutsche Bank and 43 others have invested in rounds before Idealab. There are 2 companies where OSTI has invested before Idealab and 1 company where Deutsche Bank has invested before Idealab.
Top Co-investors of Idealab: 99 investors entered a company along with Idealab. These include investors like 500 Global (3 companies).
Invested after Idealab: A total of 92 investors have invested in Idealab's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include DOE (2 companies) and OSTI (2 companies).