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Handshake
Edtech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2013 Unicorn
Investors
21 investors on Handshake's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
Ownership
Who owns Handshake
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 →
Handshake mafia
Startups founded by Handshake alumni
Former Handshake employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Global footprint
Where Handshake has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Handshake's talent
Dealroom maps Handshake's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Capital deployed
Handshake's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Handshake appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2022–2026. 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.
3 deals across Handshake's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Handshake'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 Handshake
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Handshake 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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