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Zayo
Telecom · Boulder, United States · Founded 2007 · IPO 2014 Decacorn
Zayo mafia
Startups founded by Zayo alumni
Former Zayo employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Raquel TavaresUnited States
Chris KAfferUnited States
Stephen CotrinaUnited States
Raphael MaunierFrance
Philippe BOUPDACameroonGlobal footprint
Where Zayo has talent and traffic
(9 of 3,784 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1M patent portfolio · 4 active families
Where Zayo concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Zayo 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
Zayo's 11 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Zayo appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2023. 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.
11 deals across Zayo's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Zayo 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
Zayo'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 Zayo
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Zayo 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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