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Consumer Services · Bastrop, United States · Founded 2006 · IPO 2013

Formerly known as "Twitter", X is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages

Valuation $45B
Revenue $2.90B
EBITDA $1.80B
Employees mapped 1,002 incl. 34 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

25 investors on X.'s cap table

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

Series A 11 investors entered at this stage
Union Square Ventures
Brian Pokorny
Dave Morin
Dick Costolo
Greg Yaitanes
Chris Sacca
SV Angel
CRV
Marc Andreessen
Ron Conway
David Sacks
Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage
Slow Ventures
DST Global Solutions
Kleiner Perkins
Insight Partners
Benchmark
Timothy Ferriss
1789 Capital
Molten Ventures
IVP
Morgan Stanley
Kevin Rose
Elon Musk
Bezos Expeditions
Darsana Capital Partners

Global footprint

Where X. has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
96 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States33.4%
🇮🇳 India7.7%
🇮🇩 Indonesia3.9%
🇹🇷 Turkey3.5%
🇯🇵 Japan3.1%
Top 5 of 96 shown
Web traffic by country
4.4B monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States23.6%
🇯🇵 Japan13.3%
🇧🇷 Brazil4.7%
🇮🇳 India4.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.8%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$536M patent portfolio · 1,635 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$536M
1.2% of market cap · 28.4× larger than top peer Discord ($19M)
1,635 active patent families
Where X. innovates Computer programData miningData scienceReal-time computingApplication software

Where X. concentrates vs peers

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

Compare against

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

Capital deployed

X.'s 84 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where X. appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2008–2026. 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.

Portfolio analysis

84 deals across X.'s capital deployment.

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

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where X. 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

        X.'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
        84 of 84 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about X.

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about X. 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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