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eBay
Transportation · San Jose, United States · Founded 1995 · IPO 1998 Decacorn
Buy and sell electronics, cars, fashion apparel, collectibles, sporting goods, digital cameras, baby items, coupons, and everything else on eBay
eBay mafia
Startups founded by eBay alumni
Former eBay employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Henri MoissinacNetherlands
Lilian WengUnited States
Mike LeBeauUnited States
Sharon MeersUnited States
Adam SadilekUnited States
Amit GuptaIndia
Eoin HinchyIreland
Ritu NarayanUnited States
Ron GuraUnited States
Clément DelangueUnited States
Alberto GenoveseItalyGlobal footprint
Where eBay has talent and traffic
(395 of 20,122 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1.3B patent portfolio · 1,361 active families
Where eBay concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across eBay and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
eBay's 139 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where eBay appeared as a backer or acquirer, 1999–2026. 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.
139 deals across eBay's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where eBay 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
eBay'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about eBay
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about eBay 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
See eBay on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.