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Ultimate Software

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

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

Valuation
$11B
Market cap · 2026
Revenue
$1.63B
Latest reported FY
EBITDA
$402M
Latest reported FY
Featured in Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

1 investor on Ultimate Software's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

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 score87
Zephyr CloudEst. 2023
ZCZackary ChappleUnited States
Signal score82
ResilienceEst. 2021
Jonathan BenhamouFrance
Signal score78
League Network | FundMyTeamEst. 2016
JWJay WhiteheadUnited States
Signal score68
EasyCodeEst. 2022
PLPaul LiCanada
Signal score67
PartenderEst. 2012
Chris CordleUnited States
Signal score66
PeopleDocEst. 2007
Clement BuyseFrance
Signal score64
TrueworkEst. 2017
Victor KabdebonUnited States
Signal score63
Modern TreasuryEst. 2018
Matthew MarcusUnited States
Signal score63
Level MoneyEst. 2021
David LeeUnited States
Signal score51
GliderEst. 2024
JJJohn JohnsonUnited States
Signal score47
GladiateEst. 2022
BGBrett GarciaUnited States
Signal score46

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Global footprint

Where Ultimate Software has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.3% of workforce is AI talent
(2 of 603 staff)
Core AI00%
Other AI20.33%
Non-AI workforce60199.67%
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
12K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States85%
🇨🇦 Canada12.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.2%
Top 3 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$3M patent portfolio · 28 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$3M
0.03% of market cap · 468.8× smaller than top peer SAP SuccessFactors ($1.4B)
28 active patent families
Where Ultimate Software innovates Data miningData scienceReal-time computingIndustrial engineeringReliability engineering

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.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        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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