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Yelp
eCommerce & Marketplaces · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2004 · IPO 2012
Yelp mafia
Startups founded by Yelp alumni
Former Yelp employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jonathan WilkinsUnited States
Amir HaghighatUnited States
Francesco AgostiUnited States
Daniel HanoverUnited States
Ayush SharmaUnited States
Soups RanjanUnited States
Neil KumarUnited States
Marty KausasUnited States
Arthur JenUnited States
Samir DuttaUnited States
Michael MarmoUnited States
Mary AntonyUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Yelp has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Yelp's talent
Dealroom maps Yelp'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
$272k patent portfolio · 4 active families
Where Yelp concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Yelp 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
Yelp's 12 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Yelp appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2012–2026. 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.
12 deals across Yelp's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Yelp 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
Yelp'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 Yelp
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Yelp 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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