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Toast
Fintech · Boston, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2021 Decacorn
An all-in-one restaurant management solution
Toast mafia
Startups founded by Toast alumni
Former Toast employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Toshit PanigrahiUnited States
Robin WingårdhSweden
Sarah SandersUnited States
Matt MangerUnited States
Christopher FevryUnited States
Ross KudwittUnited States
Tyler KarlenUnited States
Darian BhathenaUnited States
Steven DupreeUnited States
Alex BrittonUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Toast has talent and traffic
(25 of 7,660 staff)
team presence
Patent intelligence
$6M patent portfolio · 47 active families
Where Toast concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Toast 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
Toast's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Toast appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2019–2023. 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.
4 deals across Toast's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Toast 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
Toast'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Toast
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Toast 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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