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Sprout Social
Other B2B Software · Chicago, United States · Founded 2010 · IPO 2019 Unicorn
Sprout Social mafia
Startups founded by Sprout Social alumni
Former Sprout Social employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Ryan FrazierUnited States
Brad KeywellIndia
Paul LeeUnited States
Drew SternUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Sprout Social has talent and traffic
(14 of 1,791 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$451k patent portfolio · 3 active families
Where Sprout Social concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Sprout Social 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
Sprout Social's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Sprout Social appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2017–2025. 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.
4 deals across Sprout Social's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Sprout Social 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
Sprout Social'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 Sprout Social
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Sprout Social 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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