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Rakuten
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 1997 · IPO 2000
Rakuten mafia
Startups founded by Rakuten alumni
Former Rakuten employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Soichiro Swimmy MinamiJapan
Grant RheingoldUnited States
Jared MorgensternUnited States
Tobias PfalzgraffSpain
Mo BatranJapan
Masashi EnyaJapan
Masashi SaijoJapan
Mitsuto SakasegawaJapan
Fatma C.United StatesGlobal footprint
Where Rakuten has talent and traffic
team presence
Talent graph
The shape of Rakuten's talent
Dealroom maps Rakuten's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$1.1B patent portfolio · 3,409 active families
Where Rakuten concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Rakuten 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
Rakuten's 166 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Rakuten appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2010–2026. 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.
166 deals across Rakuten's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Rakuten 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
Rakuten'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 Rakuten
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Rakuten 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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