Talkdesk

AI · Palo Alto, United States · Founded 2011

World's leading cloud-based call center software solution

Valuation $10–50B

Revenue $100–500M

Headcount 1–2k

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Power Law Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News Coalex.ai raises angel round from Angels Way to build its AI 'trust layer' Jun 19, 2026

Talent graph

Talkdesk's talent

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Employees mapped 1,400 incl. 13 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 6 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 8 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

20 investors on Talkdesk's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 3 investors entered at this stage

Alex Khein

500 Global

Storm Ventures

Series A 5 investors entered at this stage

Threshold Ventures

CJ Reim

Salesforce

Patrick Yang

Salesforce Ventures

Series B+ 12 investors entered at this stage

Amity Ventures

TTCP

Skip Capital

Lead Edge Capital

Viking Global Investors

University of Lisbon

Whale Rock Capital Management

Franklin Templeton Investments

Transpose Platform

University of Lisbon Higher Technical Institute - Tecnico Lisboa

Alpha Square Group

Willoughby Capital

Ownership

Who owns Talkdesk

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

35% Founders

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Talkdesk mafia

Startups founded by Talkdesk alumni

Former Talkdesk employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

NoxusEst. 2023

Gonçalo FerreiraUnited Kingdom

Signal score76

SendosoEst. 2016

Kris RudeegraapUnited States

Signal score73

ReplicantEst. 2017

Gadi ShamiaUnited States

Signal score69

DelegateEst. 2017

RSRobert SurUnited States

Signal score64

ScreenloopEst. 2021

Nuno SaldanhaUnited Kingdom

BCBrendon CassidyUnited States

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Global footprint

Where Talkdesk has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

22 countries with
team presence

🇵🇹 Portugal40.2%

🇺🇸 United States38%

🇮🇳 India5%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.8%

🇨🇳 China2.5%

Top 5 of 22 shown

Web traffic by country

130K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States24.9%

🇵🇹 Portugal8.7%

🇵🇭 Philippines5.2%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.1%

🇮🇳 India4.7%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$4M patent portfolio · 30 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$4M

0.04% of valuation · comparable to top peer Zendesk ($5M)

30 active patent families

Where Talkdesk innovates Call routingComputer engineeringContact centerInteractive Voice Response TechnologyInteractive voice response system

Where Talkdesk concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Talkdesk and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Talkdesk

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Talkdesk 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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