The Zebra

Fintech · Austin, United States · Founded 2012

An auto insurance comparison engine, enabling users to compare and find the best car insurance

Valuation $1–2.5B

Revenue $100–500M

Headcount 100–500

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Featured in

Market map Motor and car insurance

Market map House and property insurance startups

Investors

14 investors on The Zebra's cap table

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

Seed 8 investors entered at this stage

Birchmere Ventures

Birchmere Labs

Floodgate

Simon Nixon

Innovation Works

AlphaLab

Mark Cuban

Silverton Partners

Series A 4 investors entered at this stage

Ballast Point Ventures

Mike Maples

Daher Capital

Jordan French

Series B+ 2 investors entered at this stage

Empede Capital

Accel

The Zebra mafia

Startups founded by The Zebra alumni

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

API TrackerEst. 2019

Trung VuUnited States

Signal score84

Really CommunicationsEst. 2022

Adam LyonsUnited States

Signal score78

PerigonEst. 2022

Joshua DziabiakUnited States

Signal score63

DensityEst. 2014

Jordan MessinaUnited States

Signal score63

ChaizEst. 2021

Ryan HartmanUnited States

Signal score62

MarbleEst. 2019

Stuart WinchesterUnited States

Signal score57

SuitableEst. 2014

Dominic ViscoUnited States

Signal score57

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Global footprint

Where The Zebra has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

3 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States98.7%

🇮🇳 India1.2%

🇧🇷 Brazil0.6%

3 countries shown

Web traffic by country

1.5M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States95.2%

🇨🇦 Canada0.9%

🇮🇳 India0.4%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.4%

🇦🇺 Australia0.3%

Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of The Zebra's talent

Dealroom maps The Zebra'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.

6 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org

7 AI specialistsincl. 1 core researchers

326 employees mappedperson by person

DimensionScore

AI Talentlive

Engineering

Product

Go-to-market

Leadership

Research

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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

$790k patent portfolio · 2 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$790k

0.08% of valuation · 4.4× larger than top peer Lemonade ($178k)

2 active patent families

Where The Zebra innovates Computational scienceData scienceEnvironmental geologyHigh dimensionalHuman–computer interaction

Where The Zebra concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across The Zebra 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about The Zebra

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about The Zebra 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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