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Planet Labs
Space · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2010 Decacorn
Planet Labs mafia
Startups founded by Planet Labs alumni
Former Planet Labs employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Paul Day.United States
Manu SharmaUnited States
Vince GaydarzhievUnited States
Ryan McLinkoUnited States
Vedant -United States
Derik PridmoreUnited States
Michael D'AngeloUnited States
Chris KempUnited States
Aiden McClellandUnited States
Tyler HughesUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Planet Labs has talent and traffic
(31 of 1,655 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$37M patent portfolio · 50 active families
Where Planet Labs concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Planet Labs 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
Planet Labs's 7 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Planet Labs appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2016–2025. 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.
7 deals across Planet Labs's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Planet Labs 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
Planet Labs'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 Planet Labs
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Planet Labs 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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