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Carousell

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Singapore, Singapore · Founded 2012

Mobile marketplace that helps facilitate the sale of goods between people

Valuation $1–2.5B
Revenue $100–500M
Headcount 1–2k
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Market map Next-gen social media startups

Talent graph

Carousell's talent

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Employees mapped 1,232 incl. 6 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 7 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 8 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

13 investors on Carousell's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 5 investors entered at this stage
Darius Cheung
500 Global
Golden Gate Ventures
Danny Oei Wirianto
Rakuten Capital
Series A 1 investor entered at this stage
Sequoia
Series B+ 7 investors entered at this stage
DBS
EDBI
Rakuten
NAVER
Stic Investment
OLX
Heliconia Capital Management

Ownership

Who owns Carousell

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

26.2% Telenor Group

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Carousell mafia

Startups founded by Carousell alumni

Former Carousell employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

BukuWarungEst. 2019
Abhinay PeddisettyIndonesia
Signal score93
SalmonEst. 2022
Raffy MontemayorPhilippines
Signal score92
TazapayEst. 2020
AKArul kumaravelSingapore
Signal score88
RainforestEst. 2020
JCJia Jih ChaiSingapore
Signal score74
BioactivxEst. 2023
Mickey CSingapore
Signal score74
Stick EmEst. 2020
Huh Dam (Adam)Singapore
Signal score71
Food RunnerEst. 2012
Saeed GoudaSingapore
Signal score66
SurerEst. 2020
Gordon TaySingapore
Signal score42

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Global footprint

Where Carousell has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
16 countries with
team presence
🇸🇬 Singapore40.4%
🇵🇭 Philippines17.6%
🇮🇳 India11%
🇹🇼 Taiwan8.6%
🇲🇾 Malaysia7.1%
Top 5 of 16 shown

Capital deployed

Carousell's 8 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Carousell appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2016–2024. 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

8 deals across Carousell's capital deployment.

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

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Carousell'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”.

        Stage
        Period
        8 of 8 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Carousell

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Carousell 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

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