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Whatnot

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Marina del Rey, United States · Founded 2019

Interactive auctions and live-commerce platform connecting sellers and buyers

Talent graph

Whatnot's talent

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Employees mapped 1,991 incl. 38 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 18 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

30 investors on Whatnot's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 6 investors entered at this stage
Wonder Ventures
Operator Partners
Y Combinator
Liquid 2 Ventures
Scribble Ventures
TwentyTwo VC
Series A 4 investors entered at this stage
Andreessen Horowitz
Chris Zarou
Steve Aoki
Connie Chan
Series B+ 20 investors entered at this stage
BOND
Greycroft Partners
Zion Williamson
DST Global
Bond
Durable Capital Partners
Josh Richards
Bobby Wagner
BOND
DJ Skee
Andre Iguodala
Logan Paul
DeAndre Hopkins
Animal Capital
Ryan Tedder
avra
Alkeon Capital
CapitalG
Anu Hariharan
Sequoia

Ownership

Who owns Whatnot

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

37% Founders

Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Global footprint

Where Whatnot has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
21 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States82.3%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom5.2%
🇵🇱 Poland3.3%
🇮🇪 Ireland3.3%
🇨🇦 Canada1.6%
Top 5 of 21 shown
Web traffic by country
21M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States85.1%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.5%
🇫🇷 France2.8%
🇩🇪 Germany1.2%
🇦🇺 Australia1.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$293k patent portfolio · 9 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$293k
<0.01% of valuation · 685.9× smaller than top peer Spotify ($201M)
9 active patent families

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Whatnot

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Whatnot 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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