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PayPal
Fintech · San Jose, United States · Founded 1998 · IPO 2002 Decacorn
A financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide
PayPal mafia
Startups founded by PayPal alumni
Former PayPal employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Mike LeBeauUnited States
Zahid ShaikhUnited States
Yonatan BergmanUnited States
Jawed KarimUnited States
Peter ThielUnited States
Elon MuskUnited States
Joe LonsdaleUnited States
Shirshanka DasUnited States
Sugu SougoumaraneUnited States
Nicolo FrisianiUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where PayPal has talent and traffic
(541 of 36,699 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$768M patent portfolio · 1,734 active families
Where PayPal concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across PayPal 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
PayPal's 186 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where PayPal appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2000–2026. 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.
186 deals across PayPal's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where PayPal 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
PayPal'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 PayPal
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about PayPal 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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