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Shutterstock
eCommerce & Marketplaces · New York City, United States · Founded 2003 · IPO 2012
Shutterstock mafia
Startups founded by Shutterstock alumni
Former Shutterstock employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Eli FinkelshteynUnited States
Eunice GiartaUnited States
Stefan DeeranUnited States
Mert MumtazUnited States
Alexandre RenaudCanada
Chen-Ping YuUnited States
Chip KellamUnited States
Roger BeamanUnited States
Avi MuchnikUnited States
Francois Arbour.CanadaGlobal footprint
Where Shutterstock has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Shutterstock's talent
Dealroom maps Shutterstock's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$23M patent portfolio · 80 active families
Where Shutterstock concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Shutterstock 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
Shutterstock's 22 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Shutterstock appeared as a 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.
22 deals across Shutterstock's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Shutterstock'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 Shutterstock
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Shutterstock 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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