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NetApp
Other B2B Software · San Jose, United States · Founded 1992 · IPO 1995 Decacorn
NetApp mafia
Startups founded by NetApp alumni
Former NetApp employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Lincoln QuirkSenegal
Gagan JainUnited States
Golan KopichinskyUnited States
Yoram NovickUnited States
Kamesh RaghavendraUnited States
Brigitte MouchetSweden
Russell NibbelinkUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where NetApp has talent and traffic
(76 of 12,675 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$446M patent portfolio · 1,872 active families
Where NetApp concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across NetApp 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
NetApp's 28 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where NetApp appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2000–2025. 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.
28 deals across NetApp's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where NetApp 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
NetApp'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 NetApp
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about NetApp 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
See NetApp on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.