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AppDirect
eCommerce & Marketplaces · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2009
Talent graph
AppDirect's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Ownership
Who owns AppDirect
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
AppDirect mafia
Startups founded by AppDirect alumni
Former AppDirect employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Artem GolubevUnited States
Raheem SyedUnited States
Andrey AndreevGermany
Ryan BuickUnited States
Chris HerdUnited States
Anand RamanUnited States
John HonchariwUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where AppDirect has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1M patent portfolio · 16 active families
Where AppDirect concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across AppDirect 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
AppDirect's 17 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where AppDirect appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2026. 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.
17 deals across AppDirect's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where AppDirect 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
AppDirect'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”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about AppDirect
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about AppDirect 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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