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PayPal
Fintech · San Jose, United States · Founded 1998 · IPO 2002
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
Market map
What if Google made this? Well, here's what happened
Jun 8, 2026
News
PayPal files to raise debt with three senior unsecured note series
Jun 3, 2026
Analysis
The PayPal Mafia
May 13, 2026
Talent graph
PayPal's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Investors
26 investors on PayPal's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.
PayPal mafia
Startups founded by PayPal alumni
Former PayPal employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Elon MuskUnited States
Peter ThielUnited States
Adolfo BabatzMexico
Leon DengChina
Zahid ShaikhUnited States
Yonatan BergmanUnited States
Sugu SougoumaraneUnited States
Upasana TakuIndia
Joe LonsdaleUnited States
Rahul PangamUnited States
Dhruv SawhneySingaporeGlobal footprint
Where PayPal has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$766M patent portfolio · 1,728 active families
Where PayPal concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across PayPal and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
PayPal's 186 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where PayPal appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about PayPal
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about PayPal 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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