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The Trade Desk

Marketing · Ventura, United States · Founded 2009 · IPO 2016 Unicorn

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Valuation
$10B
Market cap · May/2026
Revenue
$2.90B
Latest reported FY
EBITDA
$1.32B
Latest reported FY
Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

The Trade Desk empowers buyers of advertising around the world with a self-service technology platform to manage data-driven digital advertising campaigns

Investors

6 investors on The Trade Desk's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Tap any card for that investor's profile.

Seed 2 investors entered at this stage
IA Ventures
Founder Collective
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Kortschak Investments
Revel Partners
Series B+ 2 investors entered at this stage
Wellington Management
Hermes Growth Partners

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.

Antenna$25M
Jonathan CarsonUnited States
Signal score85
Arva AI$18M
Oliver W.United States
Signal score79
CloudX$180M
Jack KernUnited States
Signal score56
SageSpot$18M
Nikki BayarUnited States
Signal score55
Evertune AI$90M
Brian StempeckUnited States
Signal score54
Earnalliance
Joseph CooperHong Kong
Signal score53
A1 Media Group$32M
Jae Woo ChungJapan
Signal score47
Kinetic Global Markets
Roger EhrenbergUnited States
Signal score46

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Global footprint

Where The Trade Desk has talent and traffic

AI talent share
1.8% of workforce is AI talent
(87 of 4,722 staff)
Core AI290.61%
Other AI581.23%
Non-AI workforce4,63598.16%
Workforce by country
34 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States62.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom12.1%
🇦🇺 Australia5%
🇸🇬 Singapore3.5%
🇩🇪 Germany3.3%
Top 5 of 34 shown
Web traffic by country
610K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States46.5%
🏳️ Korea7.7%
🏳️ Republic of6.4%
🇯🇵 Japan4.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$9M patent portfolio · 6 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with topic prominence vs same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value
$9M
0.09% of market cap · comparable to top peer VideoAmp ($11M)
6 active patent families
Where The Trade Desk innovates Real-time computingComputer engineeringToolbarMultiple contextData science

Tech-focus vs peers

Where The Trade Desk concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across The Trade Desk and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

Compare against

Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

This is teaser data. The full per-sub-category breakdown, individual patent records, and quality-score history are on the Dealroom platform — request a demo to access.

Sentiment on X

What X 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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