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Yahoo!

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 1994 · IPO 1996 Unicorn

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Valuation

$5.50B

Market cap · 2026

Revenue

$4.78B

Latest reported FY

Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Digital media and technology portfolio with advertising solutions

Investors

6 investors on Yahoo!'s cap table

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

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Randy Adams

Sequoia

Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage

Masayoshi Son

Softbank Capital

RVC (Reuters Venture Capital)

Visa

Yahoo! mafia

Startups founded by Yahoo! alumni

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

ReplitEst. 2016

Amjad MasadUnited States

Signal score97

MotiveEst. 2013

Shoaib MakaniUnited States

Signal score97

EveEst. 2020

Roger Jie LuoUnited States

Signal score97

ClickHouseEst. 2021

Yury IzrailevskyUnited States

Signal score96

WhatsAppEst. 2009

Brian ActonUnited States

Signal score96

DatabricksEst. 2013

Andy KonwinskiUnited States

Signal score95

Kapital SmartBankEst. 2012

Arjun SethiMexico

Signal score95

Euler MotorsEst. 2018

Saurav KumarIndia

Signal score94

Platform ScienceEst. 2015

Anthony SmolekUnited States

Signal score94

FirsthandEst. 2023

JHJonathan HellerUnited States

Signal score94

TuringEst. 2018

Vijay KrishnanUnited States

Signal score94

GrainEst. 2022

Anat Sheba HarariIsrael

Signal score94

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Global footprint

Where Yahoo! has talent and traffic

AI talent share

1.3% of workforce is AI talent
(138 of 10,494 staff)

Core AI430.41%

Other AI950.91%

Non-AI workforce10,35698.68%

Workforce by country

87 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States57.3%

🇹🇼 Taiwan10.3%

🇮🇳 India9.7%

🇮🇪 Ireland3.7%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.7%

Top 5 of 87 shown

Web traffic by country

540K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States33.4%

🇮🇳 India6.7%

🇮🇩 Indonesia2.8%

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia2.5%

🇧🇩 Bangladesh2.2%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$1B patent portfolio · 2,749 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$1B

18.3% of market cap · 18303.1× the top peer BuzzFeed ($55k)

2,749 active patent families

Where Yahoo! innovates Data miningData scienceInformation retrievalMultimediaWorld Wide Web

Where Yahoo! concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Yahoo! 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

Yahoo!'s 88 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Yahoo! appeared as a backer or acquirer, 1996–2025. 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

88 deals across Yahoo!'s capital deployment.

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

By sectorCount

By stageCount

By periodCount

01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

Where Yahoo! 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

Yahoo!'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

88 of 88 deals

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Yahoo!

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Yahoo! 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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