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DataDirect Networks

Other B2B Software · Los Angeles, United States · Founded 1998 Unicorn

DDN Storage | HPC & Enterprise Big Data Storage

Valuation
$5–10B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$500M–1B
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
1–2k
Current team size
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Investors

1 investor on DataDirect Networks's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Tap any card for that investor's profile.

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage

Global footprint

Where DataDirect Networks has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.3% of workforce is AI talent
(4 of 1,449 staff)
Core AI10.07%
Other AI30.21%
Non-AI workforce1,44599.72%
Workforce by country
34 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States44.2%
🇮🇳 India30.7%
🇨🇳 China3%
🇫🇷 France2.6%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.6%
Top 5 of 34 shown
Web traffic by country
51K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States35.5%
🇮🇳 India19.6%
🇨🇦 Canada6.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.7%
🇸🇬 Singapore5.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$23M patent portfolio · 121 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$23M
0.47% of valuation · comparable to top peer Fastly ($29M)
121 active patent families
Where DataDirect Networks innovates MetadataData storeComputer engineeringDistributed computingRAID

Where DataDirect Networks concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across DataDirect Networks and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

DataDirect Networks's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where DataDirect Networks appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2018–2019. 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.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across DataDirect Networks's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where DataDirect Networks 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.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        DataDirect Networks'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about DataDirect Networks

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about DataDirect Networks 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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