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Freshworks
Marketing · San Mateo, United States · Founded 2010 · IPO 2021 Unicorn
Freshworks mafia
Startups founded by Freshworks alumni
Former Freshworks employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Vignesh GirishankarUnited States
Parsuram VijayasankarUnited States
Rohit AgarwalUnited States
Siva RajamaniUnited States
Pradeep ThangavelUnited States
Abhishek MadhavanIndia
Raja JayaramanUnited States
Ramesh RavishankarUnited States
Shravan GunaseelanIndia
Aravind MurthyUnited States
Achuthanand Tanjore RaviUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Freshworks has talent and traffic
(8 of 7,504 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2M patent portfolio · 30 active families
Where Freshworks concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Freshworks 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
Freshworks's 14 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Freshworks appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2025. 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.
14 deals across Freshworks's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Freshworks 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
Freshworks'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 Freshworks
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Freshworks 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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