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DraftKings
Consumer Services · Boston, United States · Founded 2012 · IPO 2020
Talent graph
DraftKings's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Investors
20 investors on DraftKings's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
DraftKings mafia
Startups founded by DraftKings alumni
Former DraftKings employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Eric Olson.United States
Christopher HoltUnited States
Brendan GroveUnited States
Richard RosenblattUnited States
Peter SullivanUnited States
Peter JenningsUnited States
Jake BrovdaUnited States
Shalom MeckenzieUnited States
Andrew PorterUnited States
Liron ZimbergCyprusGlobal footprint
Where DraftKings has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$60M patent portfolio · 100 active families
Where DraftKings concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across DraftKings 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
DraftKings's 16 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where DraftKings appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2025. 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.
16 deals across DraftKings's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where DraftKings 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
DraftKings'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 DraftKings
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about DraftKings 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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