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Zillow
Fintech · Seattle, United States · Founded 2005 · IPO 2011 Unicorn
Zillow mafia
Startups founded by Zillow alumni
Former Zillow employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Tony SmallUnited States
Kunal ShahUnited States
Douglas PopeUnited States
Maria ZhangUnited States
Declan JonesUnited States
David DawsonUnited States
Gail WilsonUnited States
Chris BakkeUnited States
Andrew EnglanderUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Zillow has talent and traffic
(149 of 9,954 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$32M patent portfolio · 68 active families
Where Zillow concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Zillow 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
Zillow's 24 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Zillow appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2011–2026. 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.
24 deals across Zillow's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Zillow 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
Zillow'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 Zillow
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Zillow 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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