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Red Hat
Provides open source software products to the enterprise community
At a glance
- Founded
- 1993
- Headquarters
- Raleigh, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1999
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Red Hat.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Red Hat employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
PSProphet SecurityEst. 2024
Kamal ShahUnited States
FIFieldPulseEst. 2015
Alex PinchevUnited States
QUQuindarEst. 2022
Daniel WalshUnited States
RERebarEst. 2024
Andrue AndersonUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
3,397 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 Red Hat was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Red Hat 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
See Red Hat on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.