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Darktrace
Cybersecurity · Cambridge, United Kingdom · Founded 2013 · IPO 2021
Talent graph
Darktrace's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Darktrace mafia
Startups founded by Darktrace alumni
Former Darktrace employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Charles Albert DesbauxFrance
Matus MaarUnited Kingdom
Hae Min ParkSouth Korea
Stephan Robert HilleGermany
Eddy HermanUnited Kingdom
David AtkinsonUnited Kingdom
Lydia HartleyUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where Darktrace has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$161M patent portfolio · 119 active families
Where Darktrace concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Darktrace 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
Darktrace's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Darktrace appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2022–2025. 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.
3 deals across Darktrace's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Darktrace 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
Darktrace'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 Darktrace
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Darktrace 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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