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Rakuten
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 1997 · IPO 2000 Decacorn
Valuation
$11B
Market cap · Apr/2026
Revenue
$19B
Latest reported FY
Global footprint
Where Rakuten has talent and traffic
AI talent share
0.4%
of workforce is AI talent
(42 of 11,152 staff)
(42 of 11,152 staff)
Core AI140.13%
Other AI280.25%
Non-AI workforce11,11099.62%
Patent intelligence
$1.1B patent portfolio · 3,235 active families
Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.
Estimated portfolio value
$1.1B
9.7% of market cap · comparable to top peer JD.com ($1.2B)
3,235 active patent families
Where Rakuten innovates
Data miningReal-time computingDatabaseSystems engineeringData science
Above peer median on Legal, Strategic, Market, Economic, Technology
Quality vs same-sector peers
Rakuten on the five Patsnap quality dimensions
Rakuten in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.
Compare against
Patent quality scores (0–100)
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · PatsnapTech-focus vs peers
Where Rakuten concentrates inside the peer cluster
Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across Rakuten and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).
Compare against
Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per companySee Rakuten on the full Dealroom platform
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