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Workday
AI · Pleasanton, United States · Founded 2005 · IPO 2012 Decacorn
Workday mafia
Startups founded by Workday alumni
Former Workday employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Kasper HulthinUnited States
Alex YakubovichUnited States
Shanthi ShanmugamUnited States
Charlie StiglerUnited States
Sameer Gulati TUnited States
Jenn ChinUnited States
Shai KatzirUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Workday has talent and traffic
(292 of 23,970 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$169M patent portfolio · 417 active families
Where Workday concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Workday 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
Workday's 116 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Workday appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. 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.
116 deals across Workday's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Workday 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Workday'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 Workday
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Workday 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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