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Plaid
Fintech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2013 Unicorn
A financial software connecting users' bank accounts to unlock financial freedom for everyone
Plaid mafia
Startups founded by Plaid alumni
Former Plaid employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jeffrey WangUnited States
Albert MalikovNetherlands
Luke Miner.United States
Angela ZhangUnited States
Ashish KurmiUnited States
Scott YoungUnited States
Eric StrombergUnited States
Luca MartinettiUnited Kingdom
Sima GandhiUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Plaid has talent and traffic
(38 of 1,398 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$43M patent portfolio · 58 active families
Where Plaid concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Plaid 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
Plaid's 6 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Plaid appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2019–2026. 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.
6 deals across Plaid's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Plaid 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
Plaid'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 Plaid
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Plaid 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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