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xAI
AI · Palo Alto, United States · Founded 2023
xAI mafia
Startups founded by xAI alumni
Former xAI employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Eric ZelikmanUnited States
Michael MignanoUnited States
Shayan SalehianUnited States
Ying ShengUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where xAI has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of xAI's talent
Dealroom maps xAI'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.
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
$117M patent portfolio · 793 active families
Where xAI concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across xAI 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
xAI's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where xAI appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2025–2026. 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.
4 deals across xAI's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
xAI'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 xAI
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about xAI 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
See xAI on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.