Baillie Gifford

Private Equity

Profile

Founded
1908
Headquarters
Edinburgh, GB
Investments
31
Companies
19

Capital

Total Deployed
$32.6B
Lead Rounds
6

Portfolio

19 companies
Anthropic $48.4B
Private San Francisco, US

AI safety company and maker of Claude AI models

Databricks $20.0B
Private San Francisco, US

Data and AI company that provides a unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark, enabling data engineering, data science, and machine learning at scale.

SpaceX $11.9B
Private Starbase, US

Aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company designing, manufacturing, and launching advanced rockets and spacecraft with the goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Stripe $7.9B
Private San Francisco, US

Online payment processing and financial infrastructure platform

Anduril Industries $6.3B
Private Costa Mesa, United States

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company building autonomous systems, AI software, and sensor hardware for military and national security applications. Founded by Oculus VR creator Palmer Luckey and former Palantir employees, the company builds products including autonomous drones, surveillance towers, underwater vehicles, and the Lattice AI platform that integrates sensors and effectors into a unified command-and-control system.

Airbnb $3.3B
Public San Francisco, US

Online marketplace for short-term lodging and experiences

Rappi $2.3B
Private Bogota, CO

Latin American super-app providing on-demand delivery of food, groceries, and goods, along with digital financial services including payments, credit cards, and banking across nine countries in the region.

Rippling $1.8B
Private San Francisco, US

Workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance into a single system built on a unified employee graph.

Zipline $1.8B
Private San Francisco, United States

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery drones, running the world's largest commercial autonomous logistics network. The company began delivering blood and medical supplies to remote clinics in Rwanda in 2016 and has expanded to seven countries and consumer deliveries with partners like Walmart. Zipline has completed over 2 million commercial drone deliveries.

Faire $1.6B
Private San Francisco, US

Online wholesale marketplace connecting independent brands with independent retailers. Retailers discover and buy from over 100,000 brands with free returns, net-60 payment terms, and data-driven recommendations.

Affirm $1.5B
Public San Francisco, US

Affirm is a financial technology company that provides buy now, pay later (BNPL) services, offering consumers transparent installment payment options at the point of sale. Founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, it is the largest U.S.-based BNPL platform.

Slack $1.4B
Acquired San Francisco, US

Workplace messaging and collaboration platform that transformed business communication. Originally built as an internal tool at Tiny Speck during development of the game Glitch, then pivoted to become the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history.

Brex $1.2B
Acquired San Francisco, US

AI-powered corporate spend management platform providing corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, and banking solutions for startups and enterprises.

SHINE Technologies $1.0B
Private Janesville, US

Nuclear fusion company commercializing fusion-based technologies through a phased strategy: industrial testing (FLARE neutron source), medical isotopes (Lu-177 for cancer therapy, Mo-99 for diagnostics), nuclear waste recycling, and ultimately fusion energy. The Cassiopeia facility in Janesville, WI is the largest n.c.a. Lu-177 production facility in North America (200,000 doses/year capacity). Achieved first-ever visible Cherenkov radiation produced by fusion in 2023.

Discord $995M
Private San Francisco, US

Communication platform for communities and friends, offering voice, video, and text chat used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

Runway $860M
Private New York, US

AI research company building generative AI tools for video, image, and multimedia content creation. Develops foundation models for video generation including its Gen series of models, and is expanding into world models that simulate physics-aware environments.

Astranis $758M
Private San Francisco, United States

Astranis builds small geostationary broadband satellites (MicroGEO) that are roughly 1/20th the size of traditional GEO spacecraft, drastically reducing manufacturing and launch costs. The company operates the satellites it builds and leases dedicated capacity to telecom and internet service providers, connecting underserved regions worldwide.

Ginkgo Bioworks $720M
Public Boston, US

Synthetic biology company that builds an automated platform for programming cells, enabling customers across pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial chemicals to harness the power of biology.

Honor $622M
Private San Francisco, United States

Home care technology company that combines workforce management technology with personalized in-home care services for aging adults. Acquired Home Instead in 2021 to become the world's largest home care network, operating across more than 800 cities in the United States through the Honor Care Network.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.