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Snap
Leading photo messaging platform
At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2017
- Sector
- Marketing
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Snap.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed3 investors entered at this stage
Lightspeed Venture Partners- TRTraveon Rogers
SV Angel
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later27 investors entered at this stage
Dragoneer Investment Group
G Squared
NEA- GMG2 Asset Management
Meritech Capital- GCGeodesic Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Yahoo!- SCSuRo Capital
Tencent- GPGlade Brook Capital Partners
GIC
IVP
Fidelity Investments- KCKingdom Holding Company
Alibaba
Sequoia
T. Rowe Price- GVGraphene Ventures
General Catalyst
General Atlantic- LCLone Pine Capital
Coatue Management- HCHDS Capital
- YMYork Capital Management
- AVAccess Technology Ventures
- TVTitanium Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Snap employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
HIHiggsfieldEst. 2023
Aleksandr MashrabovUnited States
JUJuiceboxEst. 2022
David PaffenholzUnited States
SCScaleEst. 2016
Lucy GuoUnited States
TITitanEst. 2024
Saurin PatelUnited States
Ian FullerUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
2,302 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 Snap was the 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.
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.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Snap 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
See Snap on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.