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Opsware
Other B2B Software · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 1999 · IPO 2001 Unicorn
Opsware mafia
Startups founded by Opsware alumni
Former Opsware employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Michael FeyUnited States
Yue ZhugeUnited States
Phillip LiuUnited States
Sheri AtwoodUnited States
Sunny GuptaUnited States
Shawn DouglassUnited States
Andy DenmarkUnited States
Sharmila Shahani-MulliganUnited States
Mark DavisUnited States
Tim HowesUnited States
Scott HansburyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Opsware has talent and traffic
team presence
Patent intelligence
$270k patent portfolio · 1 active families
Where Opsware concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Opsware 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
Opsware's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Opsware appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2003–2007. 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.
3 deals across Opsware's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Opsware 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
Opsware'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 Opsware
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Opsware 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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