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Youtube
Consumer Services · San Bruno, United States · Founded 2005
Youtube mafia
Startups founded by Youtube alumni
Former Youtube employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Lenjoy LinUnited States
Llion JonesJapan
Jamie DavidsonUnited States
Thomas GrahamUnited States
Justin KanUnited States
Sugu SougoumaraneUnited States
Joel MorrisUnited Kingdom
Saureen ShahUnited States
Dhruv AminUnited States
Kevin DonahueUnited States
Ikkjin AhnUnited States
Patrick WalkerUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where Youtube has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Youtube's talent
Dealroom maps Youtube's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Capital deployed
Youtube's 8 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Youtube appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2011–2022. 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.
8 deals across Youtube's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Youtube'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 Youtube
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Youtube 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
See Youtube on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.