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The Trade Desk
Marketing · Ventura, United States · Founded 2009 · IPO 2016
Talent graph
The Trade Desk's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
The Trade Desk mafia
Startups founded by The Trade Desk alumni
Former The Trade Desk employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jack KernUnited States
Brian StempeckUnited States
Jonathan CarsonUnited States
Oliver W.United States
Nikki BayarUnited States
Joseph CooperHong Kong
Jae Woo ChungJapan
Roger EhrenbergUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where The Trade Desk has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$4M patent portfolio · 4 active families
Where The Trade Desk concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across The Trade Desk 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
The Trade Desk's 6 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where The Trade Desk appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2017–2026. 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.
6 deals across The Trade Desk's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where The Trade Desk 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
The Trade Desk'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 The Trade Desk
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about The Trade Desk 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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