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SDL
Other B2B Software · Maidenhead, United Kingdom · Founded 1992 · IPO 1999 Unicorn
SDL mafia
Startups founded by SDL alumni
Former SDL employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Dieter RungeUnited States
Jouk PleiterNetherlands
Kaarina KvaavikUnited States
Sebastian LGermany
Paul BrieRomania
Maurice FaberNetherlands
Harley ThorneUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where SDL has talent and traffic
(2 of 2,654 staff)
Patent intelligence
$13M patent portfolio · 50 active families
Where SDL concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across SDL 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
SDL's 10 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where SDL appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
SDL'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 SDL
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SDL 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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.