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BusinessObjects
Other B2B Software · San Jose, United States · Founded 1990 Unicorn
BusinessObjects mafia
Startups founded by BusinessObjects alumni
Former BusinessObjects employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Christophe de BecdelievreFrance
Bernard LiautaudUnited States
Maex AmentCayman Islands
Ryan WongCanada
Mani GillUnited States
Thierry GandilhonFrance
Quinton AlsburyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where BusinessObjects has talent and traffic
(2 of 1,326 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$12M patent portfolio · 89 active families
Where BusinessObjects concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across BusinessObjects 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
BusinessObjects's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where BusinessObjects appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2002–2007. 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 BusinessObjects's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where BusinessObjects 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
BusinessObjects'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 BusinessObjects
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BusinessObjects 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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