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A fantasy sports platform allowing users to play against other users for cash prizes

Boston, United StatesFounded 2012Consumer Services
Valuation $13B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $6.72B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $746M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2012
Headquarters
Boston, United States
Listing
IPO 2020
Sector
Consumer Services
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Research & analysis

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News Robinhood ties up with Crypto.com on prediction markets, takes minority stake Sep 8, 2026 News Kenneth Dart takes $691M stake in DraftKings, backing both top US sportsbooks Aug 20, 2026 News Kalshi eyes $40B valuation as revenue doubles to $4B annualized Aug 12, 2026

Latest news

Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning DraftKings.

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Investors

20 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed1 investor entered at this stage

Series A1 investor entered at this stage

Series B and later18 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 5,802 incl. 134 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 26 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 11 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 11 startups shown

Former DraftKings employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ConsensusEst. 2020
Eric Olson.United States
Signal score90
CloudForgeEst. 2023
Christopher HoltUnited States
Signal score86
PrizeoutEst. 2019
Brendan GroveUnited States
Signal score78
D'Amelio BrandsEst. 2022
Richard RosenblattUnited States
Signal score67
JackpocketEst. 2013
Peter SullivanUnited States
Signal score66
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
37 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States71.7%
🇧🇬 Bulgaria17%
🇺🇦 Ukraine3%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.9%
🇮🇱 Israel1.8%
Top 5 of 37 shown
Web traffic by country
14M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States93.1%
🇨🇦 Canada6.3%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.2%
🏳️ Puerto Rico0.2%
🇫🇷 France0.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$60M

100 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where DraftKings was the 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.

Portfolio analysis

16 deals across DraftKings's capital deployment.

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

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        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.

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        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        16 of 16 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about DraftKings 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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