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Rackspace
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At a glance
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- San Antonio, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2008
- Sector
- Enterprise Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Rackspace.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later2 investors entered at this stage
- ACAccel-KKR
- APABRY Partners
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Rackspace employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
ASAikido SecurityEst. 2022
Amber RuckerBelgium
TETeleportEst. 2015
Ev KontsevoyUnited States
AGA Cloud GuruEst. 2015
Ryan KroonenburgUnited States
PRProsperOpsEst. 2018
Christopher KuehlUnited States
EVEverestlabs.AIEst. 2018
Pratik KhadloyaUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
15 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Rackspace was the backer or acquirer, 2007–2022. 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.
18 deals across Rackspace's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Rackspace 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.
Rackspace'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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Rackspace on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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