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SDL
Intelligent language and content management solutions.
At a glance
- Status
- Listed
- Founded
- 1992
- Headquarters
- Maidenhead, United Kingdom
- Listing
- IPO 1999
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
More headlines
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former SDL employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Dieter RungeUnited States
PRProphiaEst. 2018
SCSantur CorporationEst. 2000
BABackbaseEst. 2003
Jouk PleiterNetherlands
DODoctorlyEst. 2017
Sebastian LGermanyGlobal footprint
Patents
52 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where SDL was the backer or acquirer, 2002–2013. 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.
10 deals across SDL's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where SDL 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.
SDL's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about SDL on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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