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23andMe
Biotech & Life Sciences · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 2006 Unicorn
Helping people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome
23andMe mafia
Startups founded by 23andMe alumni
Former 23andMe employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Eric DurandFrance
Casey MeansUnited States
George ChurchUnited States
Pierre-Eric LeiboviciFrance
Brad KittredgeUnited States
Byoung-Chul LeeSouth Korea
Romain BonjeanAustralia
Angel StegerUnited States
Sonia NigamUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where 23andMe has talent and traffic
(14 of 560 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$52M patent portfolio · 50 active families
Where 23andMe concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across 23andMe 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
23andMe's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where 23andMe appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2021. 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.
4 deals across 23andMe's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where 23andMe 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
23andMe'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 23andMe
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about 23andMe 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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