Fanatics

eCommerce & Marketplaces · New York City, United States · Founded 2011

Retailer of officially licensed sports apparel and merchandise

Valuation $10–50B

Revenue $10–50B

Headcount 10–25k

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Power Law Decacorn$10B+ valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

Fanatics's talent

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Founders /100 quality score

Key operators quality score

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 8 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

26 investors on Fanatics's cap table

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

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage

Insight Partners

Andreessen Horowitz

Series B+ 24 investors entered at this stage

Neuberger Berman

Major League Baseball Ventures

Roc Nation

LionTree Partners

Franklin Templeton Investments

BlackRock

Clearlake Capital Group

Major League Baseball Players Association

NFLPA

NFL

NHL

Major League Baseball

SoftBank

Thrive Capital

Blue Pool Capital

Shawn Jay-Z Carter

DFO Management

Temasek

Qatar Investment Authority

Major League Soccer

Fanatics mafia

Startups founded by Fanatics alumni

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

SpringEst. 2013

Alan TischUnited States

Signal score86

TrabaEst. 2021

Akshay BuddigaUnited States

Signal score82

VITLEst. 2024

SKSeth W. KaltriderUnited States

Signal score77

YouthEst. 2024

Ryan BaiseUnited States

Signal score70

Hacker NoonEst. 2016

JZJay ZalowitzUnited States

Signal score61

Maze TheoryEst. 2018

Mark HardyUnited Kingdom

Signal score59

BlispayEst. 2014

GLGreg LisiewskiUnited States

Signal score56

DylibsoEst. 2022

Steve ManuelUnited States

Signal score52

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Global footprint

Where Fanatics has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

44 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States78.3%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom8.8%

🇮🇳 India3.9%

🇮🇹 Italy1.3%

🇨🇦 Canada1.2%

Top 5 of 44 shown

Web traffic by country

170K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States47.2%

🇸🇬 Singapore7.5%

🇮🇳 India6.1%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.6%

🇨🇦 Canada3.4%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$793k patent portfolio · 25 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$793k

<0.01% of valuation · 59.4× smaller than top peer Lululemon ($47M)

25 active patent families

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.

Portfolio analysis

13 deals across Fanatics's capital deployment.

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

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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”.

Stage

Period

13 of 13 deals

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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