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Afterpay
Buy now, pay later fintech based in Australia
At a glance
- Founded
- 2014
- Headquarters
- Melbourne, Australia
- Listing
- IPO 2016
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Afterpay.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Afterpay employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Alankrit ChonaUnited States
SUSuperheroEst. 2017
SHShapedEst. 2021
Daniel CamilleriUnited States
Simon MilnerAustraliaGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
5 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Afterpay was the backer or acquirer, 2017–2025. 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.
19 deals across Afterpay's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Afterpay 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.
Afterpay'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”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Afterpay on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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
See Afterpay on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.