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Fanatics
eCommerce & Marketplaces · New York City, United States · Founded 2011 Decacorn
Fanatics mafia
Startups founded by Fanatics alumni
Former Fanatics employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Alan TischUnited States
Akshay BuddigaUnited States
Josh LuberUnited States
Ryan BaiseUnited States
Mark HardyUnited Kingdom
Steve ManuelUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Fanatics has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$46k patent portfolio · 1 active families
Where Fanatics concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Fanatics 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
Fanatics's 13 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Fanatics appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2025. 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.
13 deals across Fanatics's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Fanatics 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
Fanatics'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
What the market is saying about Fanatics
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Fanatics 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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