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Ultimate Software
Ultimate Software is a provider of cloud-based people management solutions
At a glance
- Founded
- 1990
- Headquarters
- Weston, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1998
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Ultimate Software.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage
- HPHarbourVest Partners
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Ultimate Software employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MYmyBasePayEst. 2019
Jahn Karsybaev, PMP, MSUnited States
REResilienceEst. 2021
Jonathan BenhamouFrance
TRTrueworkEst. 2017
Victor KabdebonUnited States
PEPeopleDocEst. 2007
Clement BuyseFranceGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
29 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 Ultimate Software was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2020. 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 Ultimate Software's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Ultimate Software 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.
Ultimate Software'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 Ultimate Software 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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