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Intuitive Surgical

Health Tech & Medtech · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 1995 · IPO 2000

A developer of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques and tools

Valuation $120B
Revenue $12B
EBITDA $5.33B
Power Law Centicorn$100B+ valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors

5 investors on Intuitive Surgical's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
Mayfield
Sierra Ventures
Series B+ 3 investors entered at this stage
Sofinnova Investments
Stanford University
SRI International

Intuitive Surgical mafia

Startups founded by Intuitive Surgical alumni

Former Intuitive Surgical employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Ruilongnuofu Medical TechnologyEst. 2019
John MaChina
Signal score94
PacemateEst. 2015
THTripp HigginsUnited States
Signal score84
Virgo MarketingEst. 2017
Matt SchwartzUnited States
Signal score83
Shockwave MedicalEst. 2009
Daniel HawkinsUnited States
Signal score79
NovocuffEst. 2021
Amelia DegenkolbUnited States
Signal score79
OmniLifeEst. 2016
Dalton ShaullUnited States
Signal score79
RefiberdEst. 2020
TGTushita GuptaUnited States
Signal score75
Drive.aiEst. 2015
Carol ReileyUnited States
Signal score74
ArtasEst. 2002
Fred MollUnited States
Signal score72
RivenEst. 2017
James PageUnited States
Signal score70
Auris HealthEst. 2007
Frederic MollUnited States
Signal score67
PetraEst. 2018
Shivani TorresUnited States
Signal score64

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Global footprint

Where Intuitive Surgical has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
46 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States75.3%
🇲🇽 Mexico6.6%
🇩🇪 Germany3.4%
🇨🇭 Switzerland2.5%
🇮🇳 India2.3%
Top 5 of 46 shown
Web traffic by country
390K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States50%
🇯🇵 Japan7.3%
🇮🇳 India5.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.9%
🏳️ Korea2%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Intuitive Surgical's talent

Dealroom maps Intuitive Surgical'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.

143 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
174 AI specialistsincl. 98 core researchers
13,120 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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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.

Patent intelligence

$2.5B patent portfolio · 1,753 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$2.5B
2.1% of market cap · 3× larger than top peer Auris Health ($845M)
1,753 active patent families
Where Intuitive Surgical innovates Biomedical engineeringMechanical engineeringPhysical medicine and rehabilitationPhysical therapyReoperative surgery

Where Intuitive Surgical concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Intuitive Surgical and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Intuitive Surgical's 23 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Intuitive Surgical appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2003–2026. 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.

Portfolio analysis

23 deals across Intuitive Surgical's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Intuitive Surgical'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        23 of 23 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Intuitive Surgical

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Intuitive Surgical 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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