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Coupa
Fintech · San Mateo, United States · Founded 2006 · IPO 2016 Unicorn
Coupa mafia
Startups founded by Coupa alumni
Former Coupa employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Ahmad SadeddinUnited States
Graham MelcherUnited States
Klaus TenderichGermany
Dave StephensUnited States
Joe LarkinsUnited States
Kyle KillionUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Coupa has talent and traffic
(17 of 3,416 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$20M patent portfolio · 100 active families
Where Coupa concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Coupa 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
Coupa's 25 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Coupa appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2013–2025. 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.
25 deals across Coupa's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Coupa 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
Coupa'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 Coupa
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Coupa 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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