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DigitalOcean
Other B2B Software · New York City, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2021
DigitalOcean mafia
Startups founded by DigitalOcean alumni
Former DigitalOcean employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Ricardo MedinaUnited States
John EdgarUnited States
Brooke McKimUnited States
Jacob PaulUnited States
Jeff CarrUnited States
Alec Hartman.United States
Tyler FlintUnited States
Josh FeinblumUnited States
Louis SivilloUnited States
Sam GimbelUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where DigitalOcean has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of DigitalOcean's talent
Dealroom maps DigitalOcean's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$10M patent portfolio · 23 active families
Where DigitalOcean concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across DigitalOcean 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
DigitalOcean's 5 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where DigitalOcean appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about DigitalOcean
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about DigitalOcean 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
See DigitalOcean on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.