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Root
Car Insurance that incorporates individual driving behavior in every quote
At a glance
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Columbus, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2020
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Root.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
- DCDrive Capital
Series B and later7 investors entered at this stage
Redpoint
Coatue Management
DST Global- SPScale Venture Partners
Silicon Valley Bank
Tiger Global
Ribbit Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Root employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
HPHealia Landing PageEst. 2022
Priyang ShahUnited States
BPBold PenguinEst. 2016
ILYA BODNERUnited States
RWRWXEst. 2022
Dan MangesUnited States
NINirvana InsuranceEst. 2020
Alex CargesUnited StatesGlobal footprint
across markets
Patents
16 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 Root was the 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.
3 deals across Root's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Root 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
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