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Essential

Other B2B Software · Burlington, United States · Founded 2011 Unicorn

Mobile and home devices company focused on creating consumer technology products

Valuation

$1–2.5B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Headcount

<100

Current team size

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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026

Investors

7 investors on Essential's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Redpoint

Playground Global

Series B+ 5 investors entered at this stage

Tencent

Vy Capital

Amazon Alexa Fund

Altimeter Capital

Access Technology Ventures

Global footprint

Where Essential has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

🇺🇸 United States · Burlington HQ

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Web traffic by country

19K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States36.3%

🇮🇳 India15.8%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom10.5%

🇫🇷 France7.9%

🇨🇦 Canada3.7%

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Patent intelligence

$880k patent portfolio · 2 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$880k

0.08% of valuation · 710.5× smaller than top peer Wrike ($625M)

2 active patent families

Where Essential innovates Essential oilClosed systemNitrogen gasSolventAlcohol

Where Essential concentrates vs peers

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

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Essential

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Essential 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.

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Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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