Rocket Fuel

Marketing · Redwood City, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2013

Artificial intelligence to optimize ad campaigns

Valuation $145M

Revenue $179M

EBITDA $3.0M

Power Law Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

Rocket Fuel's talent

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Employees mapped 96 incl. 1 AI specialist

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 15 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

9 investors on Rocket Fuel's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 4 investors entered at this stage

Mohr Davidow Ventures

Wilson Sonsini

DLA Piper

Labrador Ventures

Series B+ 5 investors entered at this stage

Cross Creek Advisors

Akkadian Ventures

Summit Partners

Northgate Capital

NGP Capital

Rocket Fuel mafia

Startups founded by Rocket Fuel alumni

Former Rocket Fuel employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

RubrikEst. 2014

Arvind NithrakashyapUnited States

Signal score92

Everestlabs.AIEst. 2018

JAJagadeesh AmbatiUnited States

Signal score88

CompScienceEst. 2019

Josh Butler.United States

Signal score86

Wave SportsEst. 2017

Ishaan SutariaUnited States

Signal score84

Oliv AIEst. 2016

Ishan ChhabraUnited States

Stephen NovensternUnited States

Signal score76

ControlRoomsEst. 2021

Monte ZwebenUnited States

Signal score71

CustodiaEst. 2018

Jim HackettUnited States

Signal score71

OuterboundsEst. 2021

Savin GoyalUnited States

Signal score68

MediaWallahEst. 2013

Nancy MarzoukUnited States

Signal score65

MediaMathEst. 2007

Erich WassermanUnited States

Signal score65

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Global footprint

Where Rocket Fuel has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

3 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States88.2%

🇮🇳 India5.9%

🇦🇷 Argentina5.9%

3 countries shown

Web traffic by country

530 monthly visits
across markets

🇮🇳 India94.3%

Top 1 markets shown

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Rocket Fuel

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Rocket Fuel 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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