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Coupang

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Biggest online retailer in South Korea with cheap and fast deliveries

Seattle, United StatesFounded 2010eCommerce & Marketplaces
Valuation $28B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $37B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $903M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2010
Headquarters
Seattle, United States
Listing
IPO 2021
Sector
eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News Home-fitness maker Passionate lands CNT Tech backing, eyes Japan and Taiwan Oct 7, 2026 News Sendy pulls in ₩1B Series C from local-focused backer Colds Dynamics Sep 1, 2026 News Gmarket bets ₩700B a year to reverse falling sales and chase ₩40T goal Jul 8, 2026

Investors

22 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed3 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later19 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 9,452 incl. 138 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 94 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 Coupang employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

JetEst. 2013
Nathan FaustUnited States
Signal score83
Team SpartaEst. 2019
Ian Yunseok LeeSouth Korea
Signal score79
Fluid FinancialEst. 2023
SLSteven LiSingapore
Signal score74
BYLEst. 2022
Kyung Hwan (David) KimSouth Korea
Signal score69
Smart Food NetworksEst. 2020
Samuel YangSouth Korea
Signal score65
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
28 countries with
team presence
🇰🇷 South Korea64.9%
🇺🇸 United States14.3%
🇹🇼 Taiwan7.8%
🇨🇳 China5.1%
🇮🇳 India4.6%
Top 5 of 28 shown
Web traffic by country
270M monthly visits
across markets
🏳️ Korea94.5%
🏳️ Republic of4.5%
🇹🇼 Taiwan0.7%
🇺🇸 United States0.3%
🇨🇳 China0.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$467M

1,554 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 Coupang was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2026. 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

9 deals across Coupang's capital deployment.

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

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        Where Coupang 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.

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        Coupang's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        9 of 9 deals

        Market sentiment

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        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Coupang 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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