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Yext
Marketing · New York City, United States · Founded 2006 · IPO 2017 Unicorn
Yext mafia
Startups founded by Yext alumni
Former Yext employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Joel SteinUnited States
Jesse LipsonUnited States
Upal SahaUnited States
Howard LermanUnited States
Chris ConnorsUnited States
Cynthia ZhangChina
Alex MillerUnited Kingdom
Nigel HammondUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Yext has talent and traffic
(11 of 2,342 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$38M patent portfolio · 45 active families
Where Yext concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Yext 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
Yext's 4 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Yext appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2014–2025. 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 Yext's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Yext 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
Yext'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 Yext
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Yext 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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