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Skype
Telecom · Redmond, United States · Founded 2003 Unicorn
Skype mafia
Startups founded by Skype alumni
Former Skype employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Taavet HinrikusUnited Kingdom
Martin OcenasUnited Kingdom
Vijay TellaUnited States
Bogdan DjukicGermany
Sami VaaraniemiGermany
Jonathan ChristensenGermany
Ahti HeinlaUnited States
Rein TormUnited Kingdom
David LitwakUnited States
Eugene MizinLuxembourg
Kai XieUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where Skype has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$131M patent portfolio · 101 active families
Where Skype concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Skype 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
Skype's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Skype appeared as a 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Skype
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Skype 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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