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ExactTarget
Marketing · Indianapolis, United States · Founded 2000 · IPO 2012 Unicorn
ExactTarget mafia
Startups founded by ExactTarget alumni
Former ExactTarget employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Joel HubarttUnited States
Chris BaggottUnited States
Darin BrownUnited States
Jim GoldmanUnited States
Shawn HerringUnited States
Jim McIntoshUnited States
Scott McCorkleUnited States
Conner BurtUnited States
Mike FitzgeraldUnited States
R. J. TalyorUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where ExactTarget has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$38M patent portfolio · 95 active families
Where ExactTarget concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across ExactTarget 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
ExactTarget's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where ExactTarget appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2010–2012. 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.
4 deals across ExactTarget's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
ExactTarget'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 ExactTarget
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about ExactTarget 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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