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PayPal
A financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide
At a glance
- Founded
- 1998
- Headquarters
- San Jose, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2002
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Analysis
The most valuable companies in the European Diaspora Index
Sep 6, 2026
News
Advent-Stripe consortium drops $50B pursuit of PayPal
Aug 28, 2026
Analysis
PayPal vs Stripe: founder mafias head to head
Jul 29, 2026
News
Stripe and Advent make reported $53B joint bid for PayPal
Jul 15, 2026
News
PayPal files to raise debt with three senior unsecured note series
Jun 3, 2026
Analysis
The PayPal Mafia
May 13, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning PayPal.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed4 investors entered at this stage
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later21 investors entered at this stage
- CPCompass Technology Partners
- HGHikari Tsushin Group
- IGING Group
- BABankinter
Goldman Sachs- OCOmnes Capital
- SISingtel Innov8
- RPRobertson Stephens Partners
- EBeBank
- DBDeutsche Bank
- CPClearstone Venture Partners
- EMElon Musk
- BVBlueRun Ventures
Qualcomm Ventures- CGCapital Group
- TCTaiwan Advanced Materials Technologies Corp
- DCDigital Century Capital
- MPMadison Dearborn Partners
Temasek
Vertex Holdings- PFProvidian Financial
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former PayPal employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
SLSliceEst. 2015
NENeuralinkEst. 2016
Elon MuskUnited States
PAPalantirEst. 2003
Peter ThielUnited States
CLClipEst. 2012
Adolfo BabatzMexico
XTXTransferEst. 2017
Leon DengChinaGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1,728 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 PayPal was the backer or acquirer, 2000–2026. 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.
186 deals across PayPal's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where PayPal 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.
PayPal'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 PayPal 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
See PayPal on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.