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Alibaba
Alibaba Group enables businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate and improve their efficiencies
At a glance
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- Hangzhou, China
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Centicorn$100B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Alibaba.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later13 investors entered at this stage
- MSMasayoshi Son
- CCCITIC Capital
Yahoo!
DST Global
Notable Capital- PGPrimavera Capital Group
- CCChina Investment Corporation
General Atlantic
Silver Lake Partners
Fidelity Investments
Temasek- BCBoyu Capital
SoftBank
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Alibaba employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
WEWebullEst. 2017
LOLongbridgeEst. 2017
Vincent YangSingapore
ASAspireEst. 2018
Andrea BaronchelliSingapore
AVActual VeggiesEst. 2020
Hailey SwartzUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
24,997 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 Alibaba was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Alibaba 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 Alibaba on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.