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Gusto
Fintech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2011 Decacorn
Provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses
Gusto mafia
Startups founded by Gusto alumni
Former Gusto employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Hemant TanejaUnited States
Jacquie DUnited States
Martin PannierFrance
Lauren Fifield HumphreyUnited States
Stephanie BowkerSpain
Shaan PatelUnited States
Kaiza MolinaUnited States
Nick SomanUnited States
Nikhil MathewUnited States
Upeka BeeUnited States
Nick DeMonnerUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Gusto has talent and traffic
(37 of 4,409 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$10M patent portfolio · 24 active families
Where Gusto concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Gusto 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
Gusto's 8 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Gusto appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2016–2026. 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.
8 deals across Gusto's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Gusto 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
Gusto'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Gusto
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Gusto 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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