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ARM
Semiconductors · Cambridge, United Kingdom · Founded 1990 · IPO 1998 Centicorn
Scalable processor architectures enabling next-generation computing
ARM mafia
Startups founded by ARM alumni
Former ARM employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Tim ShiUnited States
Phillip BurrUnited Kingdom
Dominic VergineUnited Kingdom
Oliver GunasekaraUnited States
Vrajesh B.United States
Hao ZhengUnited Kingdom
Andrew FrameUnited States
Fotis TalantzisUnited Kingdom
Nattapat ChaimanowongThailandGlobal footprint
Where ARM has talent and traffic
(149 of 11,322 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1.7B patent portfolio · 3,896 active families
Where ARM concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across ARM 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
ARM's 49 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where ARM appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2005–2026. 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.
49 deals across ARM's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where ARM 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
ARM'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about ARM
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about ARM 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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