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The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk empowers buyers of advertising around the world with a self-service technology platform to manage data-driven digital advertising campaigns
At a glance
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Ventura, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2016
- Sector
- Marketing
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed2 investors entered at this stage
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
- KIKortschak Investments
- RPRevel Partners
Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage
- HPHermes Growth Partners
Wellington Management
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former The Trade Desk employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jack KernUnited States
EAEvertune AIEst. 2024
Brian StempeckUnited States
Jonathan CarsonUnited States
Oliver W.United States
SASageSpotEst. 2020
Nikki BayarUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
4 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 The Trade Desk was the 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.
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.
The Trade Desk's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about The Trade Desk 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
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