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Zendesk
AI · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2007 · IPO 2014
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Talent graph
Zendesk's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Zendesk mafia
Startups founded by Zendesk alumni
Former Zendesk employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Pawel NiznikUnited States
Kurt RuppelUnited States
Bjorn LeeSingapore
Tiago AlvesPortugal
Julian EckerleGermany
Victor KmitaUnited States
Rachel DelacourFrance
Patrick Guiney-FoxIreland
Simon WistowUnited States
Vijay ManiUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Zendesk has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$5M patent portfolio · 37 active families
Where Zendesk concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Zendesk 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
Zendesk's 25 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Zendesk 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.
25 deals across Zendesk's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Zendesk'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 Zendesk
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Zendesk 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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