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Qualys
Cybersecurity · Redwood City, United States · Founded 1999 · IPO 2012 Unicorn
Qualys mafia
Startups founded by Qualys alumni
Former Qualys employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Alex PinchevUnited States
Asif AwanUnited States
Nicolas M ChaillanUnited States
Tanner BurnsUnited States
Matthieu TourneUnited States
Vinay MahadikUnited States
John WilsonUnited States
Brad KlausUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Qualys has talent and traffic
(8 of 3,595 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$11M patent portfolio · 22 active families
Where Qualys concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Qualys 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
Qualys's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Qualys appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2018–2021. 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 Qualys's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Qualys 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
Qualys'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 Qualys
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Qualys 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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