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Oculus
Consumer Services · Menlo Park, United States · Founded 2012 Unicorn
Develops virtual reality platforms and products, including Rift, that let people experience anything, with anyone
Oculus mafia
Startups founded by Oculus alumni
Former Oculus employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Palmer LuckeyUnited States
Brendan IribeUnited States
Max CohenUnited States
Nirav PatelUnited States
Anand KannappanUnited States
John LustyUnited Kingdom
Reza NouraiUnited States
Sam D' AmicoUnited States
Callum UnderwoodPoland
Philip SuUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Oculus has talent and traffic
(18 of 429 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$191M patent portfolio · 319 active families
Where Oculus concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Oculus 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
Oculus's 14 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Oculus appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2022. 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.
14 deals across Oculus's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Oculus 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
Oculus'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 Oculus
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Oculus 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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