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Snap
Marketing · Santa Monica, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2017 Unicorn
Leading photo messaging platform
Snap mafia
Startups founded by Snap alumni
Former Snap employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Roger Jie LuoUnited States
Aleksandr MashrabovUnited States
David PaffenholzUnited States
Joshua XuUnited States
David,Daniil LibermanUnited States
Ingolf HeldNetherlands
Aditya SarkarSaudi Arabia
David BoubaFrance
Nicolas Fallourd PaolettiFrance
Fai NurUnited States
Alex GadalinSaudi Arabia
Sneha SivakumarUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Snap has talent and traffic
(461 of 8,497 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1.4B patent portfolio · 2,299 active families
Where Snap concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Snap 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
Snap's 42 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Snap appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2025. 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.
42 deals across Snap's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Snap 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
Snap'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Snap
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Snap 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
See Snap on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.