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Skype

Telecom · Redmond, United States · Founded 2003 Unicorn

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Valuation

$5–10B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Headcount

500–1k

Current team size

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Investors

4 investors on Skype's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Tap any card for that investor's profile.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage

Mangrove Capital Partners

Series A 1 investor entered at this stage

Bessemer Venture Partners

Series B+ 2 investors entered at this stage

Threshold Ventures

Index Ventures

Global footprint

Where Skype has talent and traffic

Web traffic by country

910K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States19.2%

🏳️ Russian Federation3.7%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.4%

🇪🇸 Spain3.3%

🇧🇷 Brazil3.2%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$131M patent portfolio · 101 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value

$131M

1.5% of valuation · 346.3× the top peer Virata Corporation ($377k)

101 active patent families

Where Skype innovates Communications systemReal-time computingComputer programAudio frequencyClient-side

Below peer median on Legal, Strategic, Economic, Technology

Quality vs same-sector peers

Skype on the five Patsnap quality dimensions

Skype in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.

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Patent quality scores (0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap

Tech-focus vs peers

Where Skype concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across Skype and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

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Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

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