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Yahoo!

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 1994 · IPO 1996

Digital media and technology portfolio with advertising solutions

Valuation $5.50B
Revenue $7.00B
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
News Walmart to acquire Vibe.co, expanding its connected TV ad empire Jun 23, 2026 News Yahoo raises $1.6B in bond deal with eye-catching 11% yield Jun 3, 2026 News Nscale raises $2B Series C, Europe's largest ever, at $14.6B valuation Mar 9, 2026

Talent graph

Yahoo!'s talent

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Employees mapped 10,494 incl. 138 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 57 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

6 investors on Yahoo!'s cap table

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

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Randy Adams
Sequoia
Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage
Masayoshi Son
Softbank Capital
Visa
RVC (Reuters Venture Capital)

Yahoo! mafia

Startups founded by Yahoo! alumni

Former Yahoo! employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

MotiveEst. 2013
Shoaib MakaniUnited States
Signal score98
OpenAIEst. 2015
Trevor BlackwellUnited States
Signal score97
ReplitEst. 2016
Amjad MasadUnited States
Signal score97
WhatsAppEst. 2009
Brian ActonUnited States
Signal score97
ClickHouseEst. 2021
Yury IzrailevskyUnited States
Signal score96
PerplexityEst. 2022
Andy KonwinskiUnited States
Signal score96
Parallel Web SystemsEst. 2023
Parag AgrawalUnited States
Signal score95
TuringEst. 2018
Vijay KrishnanUnited States
Signal score95
SocketEst. 2020
Feross AboukhadijehUnited States
Signal score95
ZumEst. 2015
Ritu NarayanUnited States
Signal score95
StuutEst. 2024
Adam ChaarawiUnited States
Signal score95
Platform ScienceEst. 2015
Anthony SmolekUnited States
Signal score95

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Global footprint

Where Yahoo! has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
87 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States57.3%
🇹🇼 Taiwan10.3%
🇮🇳 India9.7%
🇮🇪 Ireland3.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.7%
Top 5 of 87 shown
Web traffic by country
520K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States31.3%
🇮🇩 Indonesia6.3%
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan4.6%
🇹🇷 Turkey3.6%
🇻🇳 Vietnam2.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$412M patent portfolio · 1,174 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$412M
7.5% of market cap · 2276.8× larger than top peer BuzzFeed ($181k)
1,174 active patent families
Where Yahoo! innovates Data miningData scienceInformation retrievalMultimediaElectronic content

Where Yahoo! concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Yahoo! and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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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.

Portfolio analysis

88 deals across Yahoo!'s capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        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.

        Compare against

        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        88 of 88 deals

        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

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