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title: "Red Hat: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Red Hat, LLC is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-red-hat
type: Organization
wikidata: Q485593
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
website: https://www.redhat.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# Red Hat

> Red Hat, LLC is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1993-03-27
- Headquarters: Raleigh
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.redhat.com/
- Employees: 19,000 (as of 2022-01-19)
- Industries: software industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/RedHat
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat
- github: https://github.com/RedHatOfficial

## Key people

- Bob Young, founder (Canadian entrepreneur)
- Marc Ewing, founder (American businessman)
- Matt Hicks, chief executive (business executive), since 2022-07-12
- Alan Cox (British computer programmer)
- Valerie Aurora (American computer scientist and activist)
- Ingo Molnár (Linux kernel programmer)
- Lennart Poettering (German software engineer)
- Emma Haruka Iwao (Known for Pi calc)
- Carsten Haitzler (Australian software engineer)
- Havoc Pennington (American computer engineer and entrepreneur)
- Alexandre Oliva (Brazilian software programmer, member of the Free Software Foundation, founder of the FSFLA, and Linux-libre maintainer)
- David S. Miller (American software programmer)
- Marc Fleury (French software programmer)
- Chris Montgomery (American software developer)
- Ulrich Drepper (German computer scientist)

## Funding rounds

From Form D notices filed with the SEC. An amount sold is what the filing reports at the time of filing, not a valuation.

- 2014-06-27: Form D, USD 29 million sold of a USD 29 million offering, 3 investors ([filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1087423/000108742314000001/))

## Revenue

- undated: USD 652.6 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 748.2 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 909.3 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.5 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.8 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2.4 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2.9 billion (SEC filing)
- 2013-01-01: USD 1.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: USD 1.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: USD 1.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: USD 2.1 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Parent: [IBM](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm.md)
Subsidiaries: Red Hat (United Kingdom), Red Hat (Israel), Red Hat Czech, Red Hat Germany, StackRox

## Products

- software
- Fedora Linux
- WildFly
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 389 Directory Server

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Red Hat, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-red-hat#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q485593, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001087423

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