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iRobot
Robotics · Atlantic City, United States · Founded 1990 · IPO 2005 Unicorn
Consumer robotics for autonomous home cleaning
iRobot mafia
Startups founded by iRobot alumni
Former iRobot employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jack MoldaveUnited States
Pierre BiSwitzerland
Kyle DumontUnited States
Kyle VogtUnited States
Shubh SinhaUnited States
Jake BouvrieUnited States
Rony KubatUnited States
Edison HudsonUnited States
Christopher JonesUnited Kingdom
Benjamin DelilloUnited States
Tom Wagner, Ph.D.United StatesGlobal footprint
Where iRobot has talent and traffic
(14 of 1,024 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$499M patent portfolio · 318 active families
Where iRobot concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across iRobot 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
iRobot's 20 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where iRobot appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2022. 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.
20 deals across iRobot's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where iRobot 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
iRobot'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about iRobot
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about iRobot 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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