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Alibaba

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Alibaba Group enables businesses to transform the way they market, sell, operate and improve their efficiencies

Hangzhou, ChinaFounded 1999eCommerce & Marketplaces
Valuation $281B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $141B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $27B Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
1999
Headquarters
Hangzhou, China
Listing
IPO 2014
Sector
eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law
Centicorn$100B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News Alibaba's Tsai tells Europe: open source is your only path to tech independence Oct 11, 2026 Analysis Personal AI agents are back: nine big tech launches and 21 startups raising money in 2026 Sep 30, 2026 News Alibaba prices $10.2B share sale to fund AI push, stock drops 10% Aug 24, 2026 News Alibaba raises HK$80B in equity, all earmarked for AI Aug 23, 2026 Market map Non-Fungible Token (NFT) startups

Investors

14 investors on the cap table

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

Talent

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Employees mapped 29,238 incl. 8 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 11 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former Alibaba employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

WebullEst. 2017
WAWang AnquanUnited States
Signal score90
LongbridgeEst. 2017
Vincent YangSingapore
Signal score90
AspireEst. 2018
Andrea BaronchelliSingapore
Signal score88
Actual VeggiesEst. 2020
Hailey SwartzUnited States
Signal score85
BideaseEst. 2016
BABoris AUnited States
Signal score85
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
76 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China88.5%
🇺🇸 United States1.7%
🇮🇳 India1.3%
🇵🇰 Pakistan1%
🇻🇳 Vietnam0.8%
Top 5 of 76 shown
Web traffic by country
75M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States20.6%
🇨🇳 China5.2%
🇮🇳 India4%
🇫🇷 France3.3%
🇧🇷 Brazil3%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$6.5B

24,997 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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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.

Portfolio analysis

374 deals across Alibaba's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        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.

        Compare against

        Alibaba's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        374 of 374 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        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

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