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Yext
Marketing · New York City, United States · Founded 2006 · IPO 2017
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
Brian DistelburgerUnited States
Upal SahaUnited States
Temuge EnkhbaatarUnited States
Josh GuttmanCanada
Adam KaplanUnited States
Howard LermanUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Yext has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Yext's talent
Dealroom maps Yext'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
$40M patent portfolio · 43 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.
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
See Yext on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.