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Alibaba

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Hangzhou, China · Founded 1999 · IPO 2014 Centicorn

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Valuation
$298B
Market cap · May/2026
Revenue
$137B
Latest reported FY
EBITDA
$17B
Latest reported FY
Featured in Centicorn$100B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Alibaba Group enables businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate and improve their efficiencies

Investors

15 investors on Alibaba's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Goldman Sachs
Series B+ 14 investors entered at this stage
DST Global
Boyu Capital
Temasek
China Investment Corporation
FJ Labs
Yahoo!
General Atlantic
Silver Lake Partners
SoftBank
Fidelity Investments
Primavera Capital Group
Masayoshi Son
CITIC Capital
Notable Capital

Alibaba mafia

Startups founded by Alibaba alumni

Former Alibaba employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

LongbridgeEst. 2017
Vincent YangNew Zealand
Signal score89
AspireEst. 2018
Andrea BaronchelliSingapore
Signal score87
WebullEst. 2017
WAWang AnquanUnited States
Signal score87
EssorEst. 2020
Pierre PoignantUnited States
Signal score86
Actual VeggiesEst. 2020
Hailey SwartzUnited States
Signal score86
PricepallyEst. 2017
Luther LawoyinNigeria
Signal score84
InHouseEst. 2021
Jono SchaflerUnited States
Signal score81
MoreSecEst. 2016
Xingguo WeiChina
Signal score78
AdeptMindEst. 2016
Jing HeCanada
Signal score76
BeibeiEst. 2014
Lianglun ZhangChina
Signal score75
AibeeEst. 2017
SZShenghuo ZhuChina
Signal score74
Moffett AIEst. 2018
ZXZhibin XiaoUnited States
Signal score73

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Global footprint

Where Alibaba has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.0% of workforce is AI talent
(8 of 28,941 staff)
Core AI60.02%
Other AI20.01%
Non-AI workforce28,93399.97%
Workforce by country
76 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China88.5%
🇺🇸 United States1.7%
🇮🇳 India1.3%
🇵🇰 Pakistan1%
🇻🇳 Vietnam0.8%
Top 5 of 76 shown
Web traffic by country
100M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States17.5%
🇨🇳 China5.2%
🇯🇵 Japan4.3%
🇮🇳 India4.1%
🇫🇷 France3.8%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$6.3B patent portfolio · 18,298 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$6.3B
2.1% of market cap · 12.6× the top peer Juul ($501M)
18,298 active patent families
Where Alibaba innovates Data scienceData miningReal-time computingComputer engineeringElectronic equipment

Where Alibaba concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Alibaba and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Alibaba's 374 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Alibaba appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2009–2026. 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.

Portfolio analysis

374 deals across Alibaba's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Alibaba 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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        Alibaba'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        374 of 374 deals

        Sentiment on X

        What X is saying about Alibaba

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Alibaba 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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