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Guidewire Software
Fintech · San Mateo, United States · Founded 2001 · IPO 2012 Decacorn
Guidewire Software mafia
Startups founded by Guidewire Software alumni
Former Guidewire Software employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Mark ShawUnited States
Danylo PrusakovUnited States
Alice HauUnited States
Peter HollandUnited States
Aaron HowellUnited States
Anne KimUnited States
Dave BrewsterUnited States
Hywel CarverUnited Kingdom
Chris MaddoxUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Guidewire Software has talent and traffic
(29 of 4,204 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$7M patent portfolio · 31 active families
Where Guidewire Software concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Guidewire Software 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
Guidewire Software's 21 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Guidewire Software appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2013–2026. 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.
21 deals across Guidewire Software's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Guidewire Software 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
Guidewire Software'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 Guidewire Software
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Guidewire Software 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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