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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

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.

SnapmintEst. 2015
Rahul AgarwalIndia
Signal score95
BukuWarungEst. 2019
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

Talent graph

The shape of Near's talent

Dealroom maps Near's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

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.

Compare against

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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