Near

Other B2B Software · Pasadena, United States · Founded 2012 · Public via SPAC 2022

Ambient Intelligence platform providing real-time information on places, people and products

Valuation $81M

Revenue $98M

Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Colt$25–100M revenue

Talent graph

Near's talent

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Founders /100 quality score

Key operators quality score

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 6 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

7 investors on Near's cap table

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

Series A 1 investor entered at this stage

JP Morgan

Series B+ 6 investors entered at this stage

Sequoia

Greater Pacific Capital

Global Brain Corporation

Cisco Investments

Blue Torch Capital

OurCrowd

Near mafia

Startups founded by Near alumni

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

Abhinay PeddisettyIndonesia

Signal score93

QwarryEst. 2019

Geoffrey BerthonFrance

Signal score83

DattakEst. 2021

Benoit GrouchkoFrance

Signal score80

TeemoEst. 2014

Guillaume CharhonFrance

Signal score79

UpscaleEst. 2020

Sandeep SinghUnited States

Signal score75

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Global footprint

Where Near has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

8 countries with
team presence

🇮🇳 India51.1%

🇺🇸 United States33.4%

🇫🇷 France8.3%

🇦🇺 Australia3.9%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.3%

Top 5 of 8 shown

Web traffic by country

180K monthly visits
across markets

🇮🇳 India58.8%

🇺🇸 United States9.3%

🇯🇵 Japan3.6%

🇻🇳 Vietnam3.4%

🇩🇪 Germany3.4%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$5M patent portfolio · 16 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$5M

6.5% of market cap · 3× smaller than top peer FiscalNote ($16M)

16 active patent families

Where Near innovates Data miningData scienceData streamLocation dataMicroblogging

Where Near concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Near 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

Near's 6 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Near appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2025. 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

6 deals across Near's capital deployment.

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

By sectorCount

By stageCount

By periodCount

01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

Where Near 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.

Compare against

02 · Portfolio market map

Near'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

6 of 6 deals

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Near

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Near 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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