Root, Inc.
A car insurance company that prices policies based on how you actually drive. Its smartphone app runs a "test drive," using your phone's GPS and sensors to track speed, braking, and turning, then sets your rate on that real behavior rather than traditional factors like credit scores. Founded in 2015 in Columbus, Ohio, by Alex Timm and Dan Manges, the company took the name Root to signal a "root-level disruption" of a tired industry—and a return to fundamentals in judging risk. Drivers can see their rate shaped by their own habits behind the wheel.
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| Insider | Stake change | Holds now | Granted / vested | Bought | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DC I Investment LLC +5 co-filers10% owner · 11 transactions | — | 49.57Mas of Jun 2021 | — | — | — |
| Geidt ElliotDirector · 9 transactions | — | 41.67Mas of Jun 2021 | — | — | — |
| DC I Investment LLC +6 co-filers10% owner · 2 transactions | — | 39.11Mas of Jun 2021 | — | — | — |
| DC I Investment LLC +5 co-filers10% owner · 2 transactions | — | 29.47Mas of Jan 2022 | — | — | — |
| Redpoint Omega Associates II, LLC +2 co-filers10% owner · 8 transactions | — | 27.44Mas of Jun 2021 | — | — | — |
| Manges DanielChief Technology Officer, 10% owner · 9 transactions | — | 25.35Mas of Jun 2021 | 286.4K | 1.0K | 550.0K |
| SVB Financial Group10% owner · 7 transactions | — | 15.66Mas of Oct 2020 | — | — | 2.16M |
| Scale Venture Partners V, L.P.10% owner · 2 transactions | — | 12.10Mas of Oct 2020 | — | — | — |
| Capital Partners III, L.P.10% owner · 2 transactions | — | 11.29Mas of Oct 2020 | — | — | 1.25M |
| Venture Overage Fund, L.P.10% owner · 2 transactions | — | 2.81Mas of Oct 2020 | — | — | 312.5K |
| Olsen Christopher10% owner · 24 transactions | — | 1.96Mas of May 2025 | 15.3K | — | — |
| Malka Meyer10% owner · 4 transactions | — | 1.69Mas of Dec 2020 | — | 1.75M | — |
| Malka Meyer +2 co-filers10% owner · 21 transactions | — | 1.46Mas of Nov 2024 | — | — | 395.3K |
| Malka Meyer +1 co-filer10% owner · 22 transactions | — | 1.23Mas of Apr 2025 | — | — | 289.3K |
| Shah HemalChief Product Officer · 4 transactions | — | 880.8Kas of Feb 2022 | 457.6K | — | 41.7K |
| Bonakdarpour MahtiyarPresident and CTO · 84 transactions | — | 858.7K | 4.49M | 34.9K | 22.3K |
| Rosenthal Daniel HCh. Rev. and Operating Officer, Director · 12 transactions | — | 708.8Kas of Feb 2023 | 1.67M | 100.0K | — |
| Bateman Robert H.Chief Financial Officer · 1 transaction | — | 653.4Kas of Apr 2022 | 653.4K | — | — |
| Drive Capital I (GP) LLC +4 co-filers10% owner · 6 transactions | — | 508.3Kas of May 2025 | — | — | — |
| Timm Alexander E.Chief Executive Officer, Director, 10% owner · 48 transactions | — | 244.4K | 1.97M | — | 34.0K |
| Binkley MeganChief Financial Officer · 39 transactions | — | 112.3K | 282.9K | — | — |
| Hilsheimer Lawrence A.Director · 19 transactions | — | 88.0K | 230.0K | 28.7K | — |
| Allison JonathanChief Administrative Officer · 71 transactions | — | 68.4K | 135.5K | — | 60.7K |
| Ulman DougDirector · 20 transactions | — | 64.3K | 153.7K | — | 19.2K |
| Malka Meyer +2 co-filers10% owner · 3 transactions | — | 43.1Kas of Dec 2022 | — | — | 54.3K |
| von Ahn LuisDirector · 2 transactions | — | 41.3Kas of Jun 2021 | 41.3K | — | — |
| Kramer Nancy JDirector · 9 transactions | — | 30.8K | 129.3K | — | — |
| Forish RyanChief Accounting Officer · 20 transactions | — | 24.2K | 14.3K | — | — |
| Devard JerriDirector · 10 transactions | — | 21.4K | 171.2K | — | 1.9K |
| Birnbaum Beth ADirector · 18 transactions | — | 17.1K | 151.8K | — | 4.6K |
| Szudarek JulieDirector · 8 transactions | — | 14.7K | 138.4K | — | 6.3K |
| Dorsey DonnaDirector · 4 transactions | — | 12.8K | 12.8K | — | — |
| Maw Scott HarlanDirector · 7 transactions | — | 11.2Kas of Dec 2022 | 169.6K | — | — |
| Kundu AnirbanChief Technology Officer · 2 transactions | — | 0as of Jul 2021 | 2.32M | — | — |
Select a row to see that insider’s individual transactions. Sum of the holdings confirmed in the 12 months before this insider's last filing. A Form 4 reports a holding per line — held directly, or through a named trust, partnership or foundation, and in each share class separately — never a person’s total. Lines not restated in that time are left out and shown apart: an active filer restates what they still hold, so a line they did not restate is more often an entity since renamed, whose shares a successor line reports too. An amber marker means some were left out.
Net open-market activity over all recorded history: -3.29M shares. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not decisions to buy or sell.