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GoDaddy
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Scottsdale, United States · Founded 1997 · IPO 2015 Decacorn
GoDaddy mafia
Startups founded by GoDaddy alumni
Former GoDaddy employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jackson BuntrockUnited States
Reza SardehaNetherlands
Adam MarcusUnited States
Andrej BencicSerbia
Pavel SerbajloUnited States
Shaun SeoUnited States
Inje YeoUnited States
Marc PietteUnited States
Robby WalkerUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where GoDaddy has talent and traffic
(59 of 8,986 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$582k patent portfolio · 4 active families
Where GoDaddy concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across GoDaddy 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
GoDaddy's 24 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where GoDaddy appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2022. 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.
24 deals across GoDaddy's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where GoDaddy 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
GoDaddy'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 GoDaddy
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about GoDaddy 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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