A
Amazon
World's leading online shop and e-commerce platform for nearly everything
At a glance
- Founded
- 1994
- Headquarters
- Seattle, United States
- Listing
- IPO 1997
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Magnificent 7Power Law dataset 2026Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
Dig: Globalstar Amazon Apr ACQ premature — close ~2027
Sep 20, 2026
News
Class A Dig: Amazon–Covariant was talent + non-exclusive licence — not a company acquisition
Sep 20, 2026
Analysis
What if Big Tech builds it?
Sep 15, 2026
Analysis
The Magnificent 7 are in 45% of 2026’s venture dollars
Sep 10, 2026
News
Amazon raises £4 billion in debut sterling bond sale
Sep 9, 2026
Analysis
Tech alumni and the Dutch innovation economy
Sep 7, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Amazon.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed1 investor entered at this stage
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Amazon employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
ABAbridgeEst. 2018
Zachary LiptonUnited States
FAFalEst. 2021
Gorkem YurtsevenUnited States
TWTwilioEst. 2008
Jeff LawsonUnited States
HAHippocratic AIEst. 2023
Subhabrata (Subho) MukherjeeUnited States
ARArenaEst. 2025
Wei-Lin ChiangUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
15,695 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 Amazon was the backer or acquirer, 1998–2026. 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.
481 deals across Amazon's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Amazon 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.
Amazon'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 Amazon 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 Amazon on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.