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Intuitive Surgical
Health Tech & Medtech · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 1995 · IPO 2000
Talent graph
Intuitive Surgical's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
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.
John MaChina
Matt SchwartzUnited States
Daniel HawkinsUnited States
Amelia DegenkolbUnited States
Dalton ShaullUnited States
Carol ReileyUnited States
Fred MollUnited States
James PageUnited States
Frederic MollUnited States
Shivani TorresUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Intuitive Surgical has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2.5B patent portfolio · 1,753 active families
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.
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.
23 deals across Intuitive Surgical's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
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”.
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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