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Thumbtack
An online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals
At a glance
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Thumbtack.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed14 investors entered at this stage
- YEYan-David Erlich
- SFScott Faber
- APAriel Poler
- AHAuren Hoffman
- JCJason Calacanis
- DGDenis Grosz
Joshua Schachter- JLJim Lanzone
- MGMark Goines
- HPHadi Partovi
- MBMark Britto
Scott Banister
Cyan Banister- APAli Partovi
Series A4 investors entered at this stage
- JPJavelin Venture Partners
Threshold Ventures
Draper Associates- MCMHS Capital
Series B and later9 investors entered at this stage
G Squared
Sequoia
Qatar Investment Authority
CapitalG
Blackstone
Alphabet | Google- FCFounders Circle Capital
Baillie Gifford
Tiger Global
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Thumbtack employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
STStrellaEst. 2023
Lydia HyltonUnited States
STStiltaEst. 2025
GLGlacierEst. 2019
Rebecca HuUnited States
RERekuEst. 2018
Jesse ChoiIndonesiaGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
12 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 Thumbtack was the backer or acquirer, 2015–2026. 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.
3 deals across Thumbtack's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Thumbtack 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.
Thumbtack'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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Thumbtack 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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