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Gusto
Provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses
At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Gusto.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed82 investors entered at this stage
- DHDrew Houston
- MMMatt Mickiewicz
- JSJosh Silverman
- KSKevin Systrom
- JKJawed Karim
Kleiner Perkins- DSDavid Sacks
Elad Gil- ANAdam Nash
- EWEvan Williams
Ron Conway
Y Combinator
Ribbit Capital- AAAditya Agarwal
- JKJared Kopf
- DSDylan Smith
- TLTobias Lütke
- MMMatt Mullenweg
Ram Shriram
Max Levchin- LALarry Augustin
Lee Linden- MNMariam Naficy
- SLSteve Loughlin
- KCKevin Colleran
- JYJerry Yang
Ashton Kutcher- MLMark Leslie
- JVJessica Verrilli
Homebrew- JRJustin Rosenstein
- MZMarco Zappacosta
- BYBobby Yazdani
Entrée Capital
Charlie Cheever- ABAlex Bard
- JLJared Leto
- AVAspect Ventures
- WMWME
- RSRuchi Sanghvi
- JJJacob Jaber
Sam Altman- MHMatt Humphrey
Paul Buchheit- PCPatrick Collison
Salesforce Ventures
SV Angel- APAaron Patzer.
- DRDan Rose
- SSSeth Sternberg
Hiten Shah
Slow Ventures
137 Ventures- EREric Ries
- MWMichelle Wilson
- PLPhil Libin
Dharmesh Shah- JSJeff Seibert
Kevin Hartz
Pejman Nozad- SDSue Decker
- MRMatt Rogers
- TTTien Tzuo
Glynn Capital Management
Benjamin Ling- KDKris Duggan
- JSJohn Suh
- ASArjun Sethi
- JSJay Simons
- CSClara Shih
- GGGail Goodman
- JYJed York
EMERGENCE- AMAston Motes
Jeremy Stoppelman- RHRyan Holmes
- JPJulia Popowitz
Aaron Levie
Obvious Ventures- DRDan Rose
Pear Ventures- DFDesigner Fund
Series A6 investors entered at this stage
General Catalyst- #A#Angels
- AFAFSquare
- WCWayne Chang
Daniel Gross- PPPivot Investment Partners
Series B and later26 investors entered at this stage
Fidelity Investments
Altimeter Capital- GMGeneration Investment Management
- FFFriends & Family
Joshua Schachter
Section 32
GV
Franklin Templeton Investments
CapitalG
9Yards Capital- CCCross Creek
Emerson Collective- SCSWS Venture Capital
Durable Capital Partners
Dragoneer Investment Group- PVPartner Ventures
Felicis- RARose Park Advisors
DCVC
T. Rowe Price- ACACrew Capital
Quiet Capital- Emergence
Cota Capital- DMDFO Management
- VEVentureBeat
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Gusto employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
RIRisottoEst. 2023
Alex ConferUnited States
AUAuquanEst. 2018
Martin PannierFrance
Nick SomanUnited States
Stephanie BowkerSpainGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
24 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Gusto was the 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.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Gusto on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.