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Marketplace for imagery, sharing photos, inspiration, design tips and videos

New York City, United StatesFounded 2003eCommerce & Marketplaces
Valuation $325M Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $990M Latest reported FY
EBITDA $191M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2003
Headquarters
New York City, United States
Listing
IPO 2012
Sector
eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News TikTok veterans' audio AI startup Sonilo raises $11M to score video automatically Oct 8, 2026 News Getty scraps $3.7B Shutterstock merger over UK conditions Jul 1, 2026

Investors

1 investor on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed1 investor entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 2,015 incl. 37 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 18 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former Shutterstock employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

ConstructorEst. 2015
Eli FinkelshteynUnited States
Signal score95
Monad LabsEst. 2022
Eunice GiartaUnited States
Signal score93
VendeluxEst. 2021
Stefan DeeranUnited States
Signal score92
MetalEst. 2023
SPSergio PradaUnited States
Signal score89
HeliusEst. 2022
Mert MumtazUnited States
Signal score88
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
96 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States19.5%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh8.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.6%
🇺🇦 Ukraine4%
🇮🇪 Ireland3.7%
Top 5 of 96 shown
Web traffic by country
57M monthly visits
across markets
🇮🇳 India16.1%
🇺🇸 United States14.4%
🇮🇩 Indonesia6%
🇧🇷 Brazil3.4%
🇲🇽 Mexico3.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$23M

80 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Shutterstock was the backer or acquirer, 2009–2024. 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.

Portfolio analysis

22 deals across Shutterstock's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Where Shutterstock 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.

        Compare against

        Shutterstock's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        22 of 22 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Shutterstock 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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