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VeriSign
Hosting · Herndon, United States · Founded 1995 · IPO 1998 Decacorn
VeriSign mafia
Startups founded by VeriSign alumni
Former VeriSign employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Ryan SmithUnited States
Keith TeareUnited States
Jack NaglieriUnited States
Abhishek TiwariIndia
Jeff BlackwoodUnited States
James FosterUnited States
David CooperUnited States
Ryan DonnellyUnited Kingdom
Brian MillsUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where VeriSign has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$86M patent portfolio · 237 active families
Where VeriSign concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across VeriSign 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
VeriSign's 22 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where VeriSign appeared as a 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about VeriSign
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about VeriSign 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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