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PayPal

Corporate venture · Founded 1998 · Active in 2026

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32 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #459 · Global · 32 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 27% 5y
19
Decacorns → 0% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 500% 5y
13
Featured in #459Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 3%

PayPal is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 1998. The page below shows 32 Power Law outcomes from PayPal's portfolio — 19 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Marketing · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are USA · Sweden · India. PayPal ranks #459 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 32 PayPal Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA19
  2. Sweden2
  3. India2
  4. Saudi Arabia1
  5. Vietnam1
  6. Germany1
  7. Indonesia1
  8. South Korea1
  9. Japan1
  10. UK1
  11. Argentina1
  12. Canada1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech23
  2. Marketing4
  3. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  4. Other B2B Software1
  5. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+15
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

PayPal's 32 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
32 of 32 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

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

75 founders across the 32 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States30
Vietnam15
Germany5
Portugal3
Sweden3
Finland2
Pakistan1
India1
United Arab Emirates1
Canada1
+4 more →
UniversityCount
Carnegie Mellon University4
University of Lisbon Higher Technical Institute - Tecnico Lisboa3
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management3
Stockholm School of Economics3
Imperial College London3
Louisiana State University3
Raffles Institution2
Anglo-Chinese Junior College2
EBS University2
University of Münster2
+28 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft8
PayPal3
Meta3
DocuSign3
Docker2
Yahoo!2
Alphabet | Google2
Vonage2
Apple2
ClearScore2
+42 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 PayPal.

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

How does PayPal stack up?

PayPal 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.

Compare against

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 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

In the news

Latest news about PayPal

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