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Markit
Other B2B Software · London, United Kingdom · Founded 2003 · IPO 2005 Unicorn
Markit mafia
Startups founded by Markit alumni
Former Markit employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Himanshu GuptaIndia
Amar AhluwaliaCanada
Mark PurdyUnited Kingdom
Ayush KhatriIsrael
Flavius PlesuUnited Kingdom
Yikun SunUnited States
Kiet TranUnited States
Marco SchnablUnited States
Sev BazilUnited States
Alex BarnesUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where Markit has talent and traffic
(8 of 4,588 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2M patent portfolio · 11 active families
Where Markit concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Markit 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
Markit's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Markit appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2006–2015. 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.
4 deals across Markit's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Markit 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
Markit'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 Markit
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Markit 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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