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Paylocity
Other B2B Software · Schaumburg, United States · Founded 1997 · IPO 2014 Unicorn
Paylocity mafia
Startups founded by Paylocity alumni
Former Paylocity employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Global footprint
Where Paylocity has talent and traffic
(29 of 6,859 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$110k patent portfolio · 1 active families
Where Paylocity concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Paylocity 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
Paylocity's 7 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Paylocity appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2026. 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.
7 deals across Paylocity's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Paylocity 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
Paylocity'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 Paylocity
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Paylocity 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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