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Carbon Black
Cybersecurity · Palo Alto, United States · Founded 2002 · IPO 2018 Unicorn
Carbon Black mafia
Startups founded by Carbon Black alumni
Former Carbon Black employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Gidi CohenUnited States
Pete MartinUnited States
Chris LordUnited States
Guy TishUnited States
Jeff FagnanUnited States
William MurphyUnited States
J J GuyUnited States
Ben JohnsonUnited States
Brian HazzardUnited States
Adi AshkenaziUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Carbon Black has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$12M patent portfolio · 17 active families
Where Carbon Black concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Carbon Black 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
Carbon Black's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Carbon Black appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2016. 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.
3 deals across Carbon Black's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Carbon Black 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
Carbon Black'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 Carbon Black
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Carbon Black 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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