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Root

Fintech · Columbus, United States · Founded 2015 · IPO 2020

Car Insurance that incorporates individual driving behavior in every quote

Valuation $459M
Revenue $1.58B
EBITDA $132M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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News RWX raises $12M Series A to fix AI's code validation bottleneck Aug 4, 2026 Market map Motor and car insurance

Investors

8 investors on Root's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Drive Capital
Series B+ 7 investors entered at this stage
Redpoint
Coatue Management
DST Global
Scale Venture Partners
Silicon Valley Bank
Tiger Global
Ribbit Capital

Root mafia

Startups founded by Root alumni

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

Healia Landing PageEst. 2022
Priyang ShahUnited States
Signal score82
HubiFiEst. 2023
WKWilliam KaperUnited States
Signal score79
Bold PenguinEst. 2016
ILYA BODNERUnited States
Signal score76
RWXEst. 2022
Dan MangesUnited States
Signal score76
Nirvana InsuranceEst. 2020
Alex CargesUnited States
Signal score64
Empora TitleEst. 2020
MHMegan HarrisUnited States
Signal score58
ContextSDKEst. 2023
Felix KrauseUnited States
Signal score55

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Global footprint

Where Root has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
🇺🇸 United States · Columbus HQ
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Web traffic by country
990K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States98.2%
🇮🇳 India0.3%
🇨🇦 Canada0.3%
🇹🇷 Turkey0.1%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Root's talent

Dealroom maps Root'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.

25 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
30 AI specialistspinpointed by name
1,208 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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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

$2M patent portfolio · 16 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$2M
0.39% of market cap · 40.7× smaller than top peer Cambridge Mobile Telematics ($73M)
16 active patent families
Where Root innovates Computer engineeringControl theoryData scienceElectrical and Electronics engineeringLawn mower

Where Root concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Root and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Root's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Root appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2020–2022. 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.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across Root's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Root'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Root

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Root 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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