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Rackspace
Enterprise Software · San Antonio, United States · Founded 1998 · IPO 2008
Talent graph
Rackspace's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Rackspace mafia
Startups founded by Rackspace alumni
Former Rackspace employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Amber RuckerBelgium
Ev KontsevoyUnited States
Ryan KroonenburgUnited States
Christopher KuehlUnited States
Pratik KhadloyaUnited States
Perry RobinsonUnited States
Matthew GunninUnited States
Hayden LeeUnited States
Benjamin PapillonUnited States
Greg GenungUnited States
Chris BurneyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Rackspace has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$9M patent portfolio · 15 active families
Where Rackspace concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Rackspace 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
Rackspace's 18 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Rackspace appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Rackspace
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Rackspace 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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