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BusinessObjects
Enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence
At a glance
- Founded
- 1990
- Headquarters
- San Jose, United States
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning BusinessObjects.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former BusinessObjects employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Maex AmentGermany
Christophe de BecdelievreFrance
USUNIFi SoftwareEst. 2013
DADashlaneEst. 2009
Bernard LiautaudUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
344 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where BusinessObjects was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about BusinessObjects on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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