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Mercari

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Mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand goods

Tokyo, JapanFounded 2013eCommerce & Marketplaces
Valuation $5.49B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $1.74B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $229M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2013
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Listing
IPO 2018
Sector
eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News Japan's FinT lands angel round from six investors, including Mercari's chairman Sep 18, 2026 News Lost-and-found startup find draws in Rice Capital and Boost Capital via secondary deal Jul 8, 2026 News NAVER D2SF invests in SAZO, a cross-border agentic commerce startup Jun 25, 2026 Market map Next-gen social media startups

Investors

9 investors on the cap table

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

Seed1 investor entered at this stage

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

  • UNITED
  • UNITED

Series B and later6 investors entered at this stage

  • Itochu Technology Ventures
  • GMO Venture Partners
  • Globis Capital Partners
  • Global Brain Corporation
  • World Innovation Lab
  • Mitsui Global Investment

Talent

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Employees mapped 1,781 incl. 10 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 13 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 Mercari employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Sakana AIEst. 2023
Ren ItoJapan
Signal score96
Rendez-VousEst. 2022
Sota OharaJapan
Signal score78
Flatt SecurityEst. 2017
Koki IdeJapan
Signal score77
PocketSignEst. 2022
Kazuki SawadaJapan
Signal score75
Dr.'s PrimeEst. 2017
Kyosuke TakahashiJapan
Signal score72
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
23 countries with
team presence
🇯🇵 Japan92.7%
🇺🇸 United States2.8%
🇮🇳 India2.1%
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan0.2%
🇹🇼 Taiwan0.2%
Top 5 of 23 shown
Web traffic by country
140M monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan66.7%
🇺🇸 United States27.1%
🇹🇼 Taiwan1.6%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong0.8%
🏳️ Korea0.6%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$8M

112 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 Mercari was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2025. 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

19 deals across Mercari's capital deployment.

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

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        Mercari's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
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        19 of 19 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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