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SumUp
Fintech · London, United Kingdom · Founded 2012 Unicorn
A leading financial technology company, operating across 34 markets on three continents
SumUp mafia
Startups founded by SumUp alumni
Former SumUp employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Johannes SchabackGermany
Ticiano VieiraBrazil
Gaetano de MaioItaly
Cédric WaldburgerCayman Islands
Marco Alban-HidalgoUnited States
Jan Markus HoffmannGermany
Marius StäckerGermanyGlobal footprint
Where SumUp has talent and traffic
(34 of 4,078 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2M patent portfolio · 4 active families
Where SumUp concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across SumUp and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
SumUp's 9 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where SumUp appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2016–2021. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
9 deals across SumUp's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where SumUp deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
SumUp's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about SumUp
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SumUp on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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