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VeriSign
Verisign operates the infrastructure for the com, net, tv, cc, name, jobs, edu and gov top-level domains
At a glance
- Founded
- 1995
- Headquarters
- Herndon, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1998
- Sector
- Hosting
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning VeriSign.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later9 investors entered at this stage
- FCFirst Data Corporation
- MLMerrill Lynch
Kleiner Perkins
Microsoft- RCRVC (Reuters Venture Capital)
- MMMicrosoft for Startups MEA
SoftBankIntuit
Cisco
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former VeriSign employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
HIHiggsfieldEst. 2023
Mahi de SilvaUnited States
Jigish PatelUnited States
HAHalcyonEst. 2021
Ryan SmithUnited States
GLGlimpseEst. 2019
ADAdverityEst. 2015Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
238 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 VeriSign was the backer or acquirer, 1999–2016. 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.
22 deals across VeriSign's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where VeriSign 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.
VeriSign'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 VeriSign 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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