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Zalando

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Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle

Berlin, GermanyFounded 2008eCommerce & Marketplaces
Valuation $7.69B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $15B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $1.14B Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2008
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Listing
IPO 2014
Sector
eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News Zalando backs robotics startup Sereact in Series B for fashion returns Oct 8, 2026 News Dash0 acquires Polar Signals to power self-optimising software Aug 17, 2026 Analysis The Zalando Mafia May 12, 2026

Investors

8 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed1 investor entered at this stage

Series B and later7 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 12,988 incl. 395 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 157 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.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former Zalando employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

SundayEst. 2021
Christine de WendelUnited States
Signal score96
BostaEst. 2017
Khaled KandilEgypt
Signal score94
SeapointEst. 2025
Sean MullaneyIreland
Signal score92
BoltzbitEst. 2020
HXHanchen XiongUnited Kingdom
Signal score91
HappycarEst. 2013
Robert SchützeGermany
Signal score90
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
61 countries with
team presence
🇩🇪 Germany85.7%
🇫🇮 Finland1.8%
🇵🇱 Poland1.6%
🇮🇪 Ireland1.4%
🇮🇹 Italy1.4%
Top 5 of 61 shown
Web traffic by country
18M monthly visits
across markets
🇩🇪 Germany18.3%
🇫🇷 France15.2%
🇮🇹 Italy9.6%
🇳🇱 Netherlands8.1%
🇪🇸 Spain7.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$620k

1 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Zalando was the backer or acquirer, 2015–2025. 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

23 deals across Zalando's capital deployment.

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

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        Zalando's portfolio, mapped.

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        23 of 23 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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