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Cybersecurity · Seattle, United States · Founded 1996 · IPO 1999
F5 mafia
Startups founded by F5 alumni
Former F5 employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Devesh MittalUnited States
Ben VolkowIsrael
Vinod JayaramanUnited States
Michael JamesUnited States
Shannon WeyrickUnited States
Derek SmithUnited States
Raphael MaunierFrance
Gene SkibaUnited States
Andrew SternUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where F5 has talent and traffic
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of F5's talent
Dealroom maps F5's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$67M patent portfolio · 348 active families
Where F5 concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across F5 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
F5's 12 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where F5 appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2007–2025. 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.
12 deals across F5's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where F5 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
F5'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 F5
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about F5 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
See F5 on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.