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Skype
Messaging and VOIP service
At a glance
- Founded
- 2003
- Headquarters
- Redmond, United States
- Sector
- Telecom
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
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Aug 16, 2026
News
BAE-backed Expeditions closes €197M fund for European defence startups
Jul 8, 2026
News
QuTwo raises €25M angel round at $380M valuation
Jun 3, 2026
Analysis
PayPal vs Skype: founder mafias head to head
May 28, 2026
Analysis
The Skype Mafia
May 12, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Skype.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Skype employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
BOBoltEst. 2013
Martin VilligEstonia
CECeraEst. 2016
Martin OcenasUnited Kingdom
TSTripledot StudiosEst. 2017
Akin BabayigitUnited Kingdom
WOWorkatoEst. 2013
Vijay TellaUnited States
ZEZeroHashEst. 2015
Brian ListonUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
94 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 Skype was the backer or acquirer, 2007–2018. 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.
4 deals across Skype's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Skype 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.
Skype'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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Skype 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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