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Shutterstock

eCommerce & Marketplaces · New York City, United States · Founded 2003 · IPO 2012

Marketplace for imagery, sharing photos, inspiration, design tips and videos

Valuation $325M
Revenue $990M
EBITDA $191M

Talent graph

Shutterstock's talent

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Employees mapped 2,015 incl. 37 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 18 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

1 investor on Shutterstock's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage

Global footprint

Where Shutterstock has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
96 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States19.5%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh8.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom4.6%
🇺🇦 Ukraine4%
🇮🇪 Ireland3.7%
Top 5 of 96 shown
Web traffic by country
57M monthly visits
across markets
🇮🇳 India16.1%
🇺🇸 United States14.4%
🇮🇩 Indonesia6%
🇧🇷 Brazil3.4%
🇲🇽 Mexico3.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$23M patent portfolio · 80 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$23M
7.1% of market cap · 7.7× larger than top peer Patreon ($3M)
80 active patent families
Where Shutterstock innovates Computer graphics (images)Data libraryData miningData scienceHuman–computer interaction

Where Shutterstock concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Shutterstock and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Shutterstock's 22 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Shutterstock appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2009–2024. 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.

Portfolio analysis

22 deals across Shutterstock's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Shutterstock 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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Shutterstock'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        22 of 22 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Shutterstock

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Shutterstock 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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