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Handshake
Career recruiting platform for college students and universities
At a glance
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- Edtech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Handshake.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed6 investors entered at this stage
- ACAnnox Capital
True Ventures- HRHans Robertson
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lowercase Capital
Charlie Cheever
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Kleiner Perkins- ASArizona State University/Global Silicon Valley Education Innovation Summit
- GSGSV
Series B and later12 investors entered at this stage
- BPBase10 Partners
Notable Capital
Emerson Collective- RCReach Capital
Coatue Management
Omidyar Network- CIChan Zuckerberg Initiative
- VFValiant Peregrine Fund
- IFImaginable Futures
- KEKPCB Edge
- EVEQT Ventures
Spark Capital
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 Handshake employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
INInvestNextEst. 2016
Kevin HerasUnited States
MHMontai HealthEst. 2022
NONourishEst. 2021
Stephanie LiuUnited States
STStaxEst. 2017
David KutalekNigeria
Jay KhatriUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Handshake was the 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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Handshake 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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