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Rakuten
The largest ecommerce company in Japan
At a glance
- Founded
- 1997
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Listing
- IPO 2000
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Rakuten.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Rakuten employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
VIVisionalEst. 2009
Soichiro Swimmy MinamiJapan
PFPoint Digital FinanceEst. 2015
Grant RheingoldUnited States
DODorsiaEst. 2021
Jared MorgensternUnited States
BUButtonEst. 2014Global footprint
team presence
Patents
3,409 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 Rakuten was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Rakuten 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
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