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Yahoo!
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 1994 · IPO 1996
Yahoo! mafia
Startups founded by Yahoo! alumni
Former Yahoo! employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Shoaib MakaniUnited States
Trevor BlackwellUnited States
Amjad MasadUnited States
Brian ActonUnited States
Yury IzrailevskyUnited States
Andy KonwinskiUnited States
Parag AgrawalUnited States
Vijay KrishnanUnited States
Feross AboukhadijehUnited States
Ritu NarayanUnited States
Adam ChaarawiUnited States
Anthony SmolekUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Yahoo! has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Yahoo!'s talent
Dealroom maps Yahoo!'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
$412M patent portfolio · 1,174 active families
Where Yahoo! concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Yahoo! 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
Yahoo!'s 88 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Yahoo! appeared as a backer or acquirer, 1996–2025. 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.
88 deals across Yahoo!'s capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Yahoo! 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
Yahoo!'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 Yahoo!
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Yahoo! 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
See Yahoo! on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.