Katie Roof is a technology and venture capital journalist who covers venture and tech finance, breaking news on deals involving companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Waymo, and Anthropic. Katie Roof's Twitter Score is 182 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #2,730 (top 1%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Katie Roof works at Business Insider as Editor at Large and as a Global Reporter at Axel Springer Global Reporters Network. She previously served as Deputy Bureau Chief at The Information, where her bio noted her role covering venture capital. Before that, she was a senior writer and video host at TechCrunch, where she also co-hosted the TechCrunch Equity podcast about tech finance. Her earlier career included work at Bloomberg, as well as reporting roles at FOXBusiness.com and contributions to Reuters, TheStreet, and Forbes, along with television production roles at CNN and Bloomberg TV.
Katie Roof is an LA Press Club award winner, recognized for team reporting on SpaceX, and has appeared frequently as a television commentator and on-stage moderator. She has 56,596 followers as of October 2026 and has published 35,494 posts. She has been mentioned by 263 accounts a total of 740 times.
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