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Alibaba

Corporate venture · Founded 1999 · Active in 2026

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77 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #205 · Global · 77 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 25% 5y
60
Decacorns ↓ 10% 5y
9
Thoroughbreds ↑ 64% 5y
27

Alibaba is a corporate venture based in China, founded in 1999. The page below shows 77 Power Law outcomes from Alibaba's portfolio — 60 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Transportation · Other · AI; top portfolio geographies are China · USA · Hong Kong. Alibaba ranks #205 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 77 Alibaba Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. China52
  2. USA9
  3. Hong Kong5
  4. India4
  5. Singapore2
  6. South Korea1
  7. Indonesia1
  8. Israel1
  9. Taiwan1
  10. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Transportation17
  2. Other14
  3. AI10
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces10
  5. Marketing7
  6. Edtech5
  7. Fintech5
  8. Other B2B Software3
  9. Robotics3
  10. Cybersecurity2
  11. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+52
  2. Series A7
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

Alibaba's 77 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
77 of 77 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Alibaba's founders come from — and where they study.

125 founders across the 77 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Tsinghua University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
China61
India11
United States8
Denmark7
Hong Kong6
France5
Norway3
Taiwan3
Israel3
Canada2
+5 more →
UniversityCount
Tsinghua University6
Peking University5
The Chinese University of Hong Kong4
Shanghai Jiaotong University4
Copenhagen Business School4
Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
Southeast University3
Zhejiang University3
HEC Paris3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
+49 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft7
Alphabet | Google5
Sohu.com4
Uber4
Dianping3
Rocket Internet3
eBay2
MySQL2
Blue Nile2
FirstCry1
+20 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Alibaba.

Senior investment team at Alibaba has not been published on this profile yet.
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04 · Compare with peers

How does Alibaba stack up?

Alibaba in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

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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Latest news about Alibaba

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