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Red Hat
AI · Raleigh, United States · Founded 1993 · IPO 1999
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
Alex PinchevUnited States
Daniel WalshUnited States
Andrue AndersonUnited States
Anand Babu PeriasamyUnited States
Geoffrey De SmetBelgium
Kbhaskar VarmaIndia
Pierre MavroUnited States
Navin R. ThadaniUnited States
Michael GrunerUnited States
Tom BaeyensBelgiumGlobal footprint
Where Red Hat has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Red Hat's talent
Dealroom maps Red Hat'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
$467M patent portfolio · 3,397 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”.
Market sentiment
What the market 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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.