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Alibaba
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Hangzhou, China · Founded 1999 · IPO 2014
Alibaba mafia
Startups founded by Alibaba alumni
Former Alibaba employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Vincent YangSingapore
Andrea BaronchelliSingapore
Hailey SwartzUnited States
Jono SchaflerUnited States
Pierre PoignantUnited States
Boris AbaevEstonia
Xingguo WeiChina
Jing HeCanada
Xuan LuoChinaGlobal footprint
Where Alibaba has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Alibaba's talent
Dealroom maps Alibaba's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$6.5B patent portfolio · 24,997 active families
Where Alibaba concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Alibaba 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
Alibaba's 374 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Alibaba appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2009–2026. 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.
374 deals across Alibaba's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Alibaba 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
Alibaba'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
What the market 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
See Alibaba on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.