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Fanatics
Retailer of officially licensed sports apparel and merchandise
At a glance
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- New York City, United States
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Fanatics.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
Series B and later24 investors entered at this stage
- NBNeuberger Berman
- MVMajor League Baseball Ventures
Alibaba
Silver Lake Partners- RNRoc Nation
SoftBank Vision Fund
Fidelity Investments- LPLionTree Partners
Franklin Templeton Investments
BlackRock- CGClearlake Capital Group
- MAMajor League Baseball Players Association
- NFNFLPA
- NFNFL
- NHNHL
- MBMajor League Baseball
SoftBank
Thrive Capital- BCBlue Pool Capital
- SCShawn Jay-Z Carter
- DMDFO Management
Temasek
Qatar Investment Authority- MSMajor League Soccer
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Fanatics employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
SPSpringEst. 2013
Alan TischUnited States
Akshay BuddigaUnited States
Ryan BaiseUnited States
HNHacker NoonEst. 2016Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
25 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 Fanatics was the 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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Fanatics 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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