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Fintech · Columbus, United States · Founded 2015 · IPO 2020 Unicorn
Root mafia
Startups founded by Root alumni
Former Root employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Alex CargesUnited States
ILYA BODNERUnited States
Felix KrauseUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Root has talent and traffic
(30 of 1,188 staff)
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1M patent portfolio · 10 active families
Where Root concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Root 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
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.
3 deals across Root's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Root 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
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
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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