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Ultimate Software

Other B2B Software · Weston, United States · Founded 1990 · IPO 1998

Ultimate Software is a provider of cloud-based people management solutions

Valuation $11B
Revenue $1.63B
EBITDA $402M
Power Law Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

Ultimate Software's talent

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Employees mapped 589 incl. 2 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 22 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

1 investor on Ultimate Software's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history.

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
HarbourVest Partners

Ultimate Software mafia

Startups founded by Ultimate Software alumni

Former Ultimate Software employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

myBasePayEst. 2019
Jahn Karsybaev, PMP, MSUnited States
Signal score88
Zephyr CloudEst. 2023
ZCZackary ChappleUnited States
Signal score82
ResilienceEst. 2021
Jonathan BenhamouFrance
Signal score81
TrueworkEst. 2017
Victor KabdebonUnited States
Signal score64
PeopleDocEst. 2007
Clement BuyseFrance
Signal score64
Modern TreasuryEst. 2018
Matthew MarcusUnited States
Signal score63
PartenderEst. 2012
Chris CordleUnited States
Signal score63
Level MoneyEst. 2021
David LeeUnited States
Signal score54
OpenBuilder (YC F25)Est. 2025
PLPaul LiUnited States
Signal score52
League Network | FundMyTeamEst. 2016
JWJay WhiteheadUnited States
Signal score51
GladiateEst. 2022
BGBrett GarciaUnited States
Signal score51
GliderEst. 2024
JJJohn JohnsonUnited States
Signal score51

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Global footprint

Where Ultimate Software has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
16 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States90.5%
🇨🇦 Canada2.8%
🇮🇳 India2%
🇵🇰 Pakistan0.9%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh0.5%
Top 5 of 16 shown
Web traffic by country
15K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States86.7%
🇨🇦 Canada11.3%
Top 2 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$6M patent portfolio · 29 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$6M
0.05% of market cap · 6.4× larger than top peer Turing ($930k)
29 active patent families
Where Ultimate Software innovates Computer engineeringData miningData scienceIndustrial engineeringMachine learning

Where Ultimate Software concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Ultimate Software and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Ultimate Software's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Ultimate Software appeared as a 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.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across Ultimate Software's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Ultimate Software

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Ultimate Software 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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