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Amazon
Transportation · Seattle, United States · Founded 1994 · IPO 1997 Mag 7
World's leading online shop and e-commerce platform for nearly everything
Amazon mafia
Startups founded by Amazon alumni
Former Amazon employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Zachary LiptonUnited States
Gorkem YurtsevenUnited States
Subhabrata MukherjeeUnited States
Wei-Lin ChiangUnited States
Madhav JhaUnited States
Filip KozjakDenmark
Jason HochUnited States
Maxim FateevUnited States
Dave ClarkUnited States
Walter GoodwinUnited Kingdom
Joe TurnerUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Amazon has talent and traffic
(10,366 of 797,883 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$3.9B patent portfolio · 14,482 active families
Where Amazon concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Amazon 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
Amazon's 481 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Amazon appeared as a backer or acquirer, 1998–2026. 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.
481 deals across Amazon's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Amazon 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Amazon'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Amazon
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Amazon 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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