Wellington Management

Asset manager
Boston, Massachusetts, USAFounded 1928www.wellington.comSee connections →

Independent asset manager offering equity, fixed income, multi-asset, alternatives, and private investing strategies to institutional investors.

At a glance

Wellington Management appears in 5 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2026, leading 2. Its most recent tracked deal was Temporal's $550M Series E round (Sep 14, 2026). It co-invests most often with Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital.

Strategy

Sectors
EquityFixed IncomeMulti-AssetAlternativesPrivate Investing
Geographies
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Recent changes

  1. Sep 14, 2026Invested in Temporal (Series E, $550M) Temporal
  2. Sep 9, 2026Invested in Clay (Series D, $115M) Business Wire
  3. Sep 6, 2026Sectors updated: Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset, Alternatives, Private Investing wellington.com
  4. Aug 31, 2026Clay Nears $7B Valuation in New Wellington-Led Round Pulse story
  5. Aug 20, 2026Invested in Muon Space (Series C, $250M) Bloomberg
Earlier changes (2)
  1. Jun 22, 2026Invested in Baseten (Series F, $1.5B) Baseten
  2. Jun 2026Invested in Higharc (Series C, $95M) Higharc

Portfolio

6 total

Recent Investment Activity

5

Track record: led 2 and participated in 3 of 5 tracked venture rounds · 5 in the last 12 months · led 1 Series D, 1 Series F

DateCompanyEventRoleAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Sep 14, 2026TemporalSeries EParticipated$550M$12.55BTemporal
Sep 9, 2026ClaySeries DLed$115M$7.1BBusiness Wire
Aug 20, 2026Muon SpaceSeries CParticipated$250M$1.5BPulse story
Jun 22, 2026BasetenSeries FLed$1.5B$13BBaseten
Jun 2026HigharcSeries CParticipated$95M—Higharc

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
1 · 17%
Enterprise SaaS
1 · 17%
Proptech
1 · 17%
Space
1 · 17%
Consumer
1 · 17%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series C
2 · 40%
Series E
1 · 20%
Series D
1 · 20%
Series F
1 · 20%

Co-Investors

12

Similar Firms

overlapping sector, stage or region

Value Add Research

Latest Pulse

  1. ElevenLabs Tender Doubles Valuation To $22BElevenLabs closed a $300 million employee tender offer that doubled its valuation to $22 billion, without the company raising a dollar of primary capital.→
  2. Figma Exec Joins AI Inference Startup BasetenA senior Figma executive is joining AI inference startup Baseten, another sign that operating talent is flowing from the application layer toward the AI infrastructure layer.→
  3. Temporal Raises $550M As Agentic AI Needs Durable CodeTemporal Technologies raised a $550 million Series E (announced September 14) at a $12.55 billion valuation led by Lightspeed, as demand for durable execution infrastructure grows alongside longer-running agentic AI workloads.→
  4. Clay Closes $115M Series D At $7.1BClay's AI go-to-market platform closed a $115 million Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation led by Wellington, confirming the $7 billion pre-money mark reported as a rumor eleven days earlier.→
  5. Clay Nears $7B Valuation in New Wellington-Led RoundClay, the AI-powered sales and marketing platform, has inked a new round led by Wellington Management at a $7 billion pre-money valuation -- up from $5 billion in January and $3.1 billion a year ago.→
  6. Muon Space Raises $250M to Build 500 Satellites a YearSatellite maker Muon Space raised a $250M Series C at a $1.5B valuation led by Eclipse, with Google and Salesforce Ventures joining, to scale production toward 500 satellites a year by 2027.→
  7. Live Commerce Defies the AI Narrative at WhatnotWhatnot doubled its valuation to $20 billion in a live-shopping market that has nothing to do with AI, proof that non-AI consumer businesses can still command venture megaround pricing in 2026.→
  8. Whatnot's $20B Round Is the Best AI News This WeekLive-shopping platform Whatnot raised $545 million at a $20 billion valuation without an AI story to tell -- proof that durable consumer businesses still get funded on their own merits.→
  9. Crystalys Raises $130M to Push Gout Drug Through Phase 3Crystalys Therapeutics raised a $130 million Series B led by Frazier Life Sciences to fund global Phase 3 trials of dotinurad, an oral gout drug already approved in five Asian markets, less than a year after a $205 million Series A.→
  10. FORE Biotherapeutics Raises $67.4M to Push BRAF Cancer DrugFORE Biotherapeutics closed an upsized $67.4 million Series D-2 extension, bringing its total Series D-2 to $110 million, to fund late-stage development of plixorafenib toward a targeted 2027 FDA submission for BRAF-mutated tumors.→
  11. Quantum Systems Raises $1.2B Series D as Europe Bets Big on Sovereign DroneQuantum Systems, a German maker of autonomous drones and multi-domain uncrewed systems, closed a $1.2 billion Series D co-led by Blackstone, Airbus Defence and Space and Advent International, more than doubling its valuation to roughly $8 billion.→
  12. Higharc Raises $95M Series C to Bring AI Into HomebuildingHigharc, which generates homes as 3D spatial databases so builders and suppliers can design, estimate, sell and build more efficiently, raised a $95 million Series C led by Insight Partners and announced a new partnership with US LBM, the country's largest.→
  13. Baseten Raises $1.5B Series F at a $13B Valuation as AI Inference Demand ExplodesAI inference provider Baseten closed a $1.5 billion Series F at a $13 billion valuation, the largest funding round of the week, led by Altimeter Capital and Conviction Partners with Spark, Sands and Wellington participating. The raise underscores how serving AI models -- not just training them -- has become one of the most valuable and capital-intensive layers of the stack.→
  14. Japan's Go Surges 21% in the Country's Biggest 2026 IPO, Then Races Toward RobotaxisGo, Japan's dominant ride-hailing app, jumped 21% in its Tokyo debut after a 25x-oversubscribed ¥88.6 billion offering -- the country's largest IPO of 2026 -- and is now steering the proceeds toward Waymo-powered robotaxis and acquisitions. It's a rare profitable, category-leading tech listing, and a signal that the IPO thaw has gone global.→
  15. Japan's Top Taxi App Go Raises $580M in Tokyo's Biggest IPO of 2026, Betting the Proceeds on RobotaxisGo Inc., Japan's dominant ride-hailing app, raised about $580 million in the country's largest IPO of the year and jumped as much as 21% on its Tokyo debut. The Goldman-backed offering was 25x oversubscribed, and Go is funneling the proceeds into robotaxis -- a Waymo partnership aimed at Japan's worsening driver shortage.→

Wellington Management FAQ

What companies has Wellington Management invested in?

Wellington Management's portfolio includes Baseten, Temporal, Clay, Muon Space, Whatnot, Higharc.

Who does Wellington Management co-invest with most?

In the rounds Value Add tracks, Wellington Management most often invests alongside Andreessen Horowitz (3 shared deals), CapitalG (3 shared deals), Sequoia Capital (3 shared deals), BoxGroup (2 shared deals), DST Global (2 shared deals).

Sources & methodologyshow
Where these figures come from

Figures are labelled Reported (a source states it), Estimated, Derived (computed from other facts) or Rumored (in talks / unconfirmed). Rumors never replace a confirmed figure. Each figure keeps its own as-of date; history is preserved rather than overwritten.

How we verify data · Suggest a correction