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DigitalOcean
Operates a cloud hosting platform
At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning DigitalOcean.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed4 investors entered at this stage
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later3 investors entered at this stage
- AIAccess Industries
- VVViaduct Ventures
- AVAccess Technology Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former DigitalOcean employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
ANAnySignalEst. 2022
Ricardo MedinaUnited States
STSTAEEst. 2016
John EdgarUnited States
Brooke McKimUnited States
CRCrosschqEst. 2018
Jacob PaulUnited States
SLSlamDataEst. 2014
Jeff CarrUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
23 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 DigitalOcean was the backer or acquirer, 2021–2026. 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.
5 deals across DigitalOcean's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where DigitalOcean 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.
DigitalOcean'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 DigitalOcean 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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