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eCommerce & Marketplaces · Mountain View, United States · Founded 2003 · IPO 2011 Decacorn
Professional network for career development and business connections
LinkedIn mafia
Startups founded by LinkedIn alumni
Former LinkedIn employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Turki Bin ZarahSaudi Arabia
Dylan FieldUnited States
Muller ZhangUnited States
Derek HomannUnited States
Bryan BurdickUnited States
Sharon ZhangUnited States
Vineet GoelUnited States
Shirshanka DasUnited States
Cara KesslerUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where LinkedIn has talent and traffic
(29 of 23,781 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$130M patent portfolio · 430 active families
Where LinkedIn concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across LinkedIn 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
LinkedIn's 40 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where LinkedIn appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2010–2023. 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.
40 deals across LinkedIn's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where LinkedIn 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
LinkedIn'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 LinkedIn
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about LinkedIn 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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