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Red Hat
AI · Raleigh, United States · Founded 1993 · IPO 1999 Decacorn
Provides open source software products to the enterprise community
Red Hat mafia
Startups founded by Red Hat alumni
Former Red Hat employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Kamal ShahUnited States
Tom BaeyensBelgium
Alex PinchevUnited States
Sameer BhalotraUnited States
Andrue AndersonUnited States
Navin R. ThadaniUnited States
Sebastian WeissGermany
Kbhaskar VarmaIndia
Pierre MavroUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Red Hat has talent and traffic
(164 of 19,302 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$509M patent portfolio · 3,406 active families
Where Red Hat concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Red Hat 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
Red Hat's 36 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Red Hat appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2001–2025. 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.
36 deals across Red Hat's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Red Hat 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
Red Hat'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 Red Hat
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Red Hat 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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