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Mercari

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2013 · IPO 2018

Mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for secondhand goods

Valuation $5.49B
Revenue $1.74B
EBITDA $229M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Talent graph

Mercari's 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.

Investors

9 investors on Mercari's cap table

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

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
East Ventures
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
UNITED
UNITED
Series B+ 6 investors entered at this stage
Itochu Technology Ventures
GMO Venture Partners
Globis Capital Partners
Global Brain Corporation
World Innovation Lab
Mitsui Global Investment

Mercari mafia

Startups founded by Mercari alumni

Former Mercari employees who went on to start their own 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
PlaytronEst. 2022
John LagerlingUnited States
Signal score71
10x JapanEst. 2017
Yosuke IshikawaJapan
Signal score68
HirerooEst. 2020
Kosuke KuzuokaJapan
Signal score61
aileadEst. 2017
Tamiki SugiyamaJapan
Signal score59
ChompyEst. 2019
Tatsuya YagiJapan
Signal score58
FINDS WorldEst. 2022
Jemma StaceyUnited Kingdom
Signal score56
FlypEst. 2019
Dani ArnaoutUnited States
Signal score56

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Global footprint

Where Mercari has talent and traffic

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

Patent intelligence

$8M patent portfolio · 112 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$8M
0.15% of market cap · 6.9× smaller than top peer Rent the Runway ($57M)
112 active patent families
Where Mercari innovates Data miningData scienceDatabaseE-commerceFinancial transaction

Where Mercari concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Mercari and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Mercari's 19 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Mercari appeared as a 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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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Mercari'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
        19 of 19 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Mercari

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Mercari 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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