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Zalando
Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle
At a glance
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Listing
- IPO 2014
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Zalando.
Investors
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
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
- PMProSiebenSat1 Media
- CCCusp Capital
- CVCommerce and Ventures(SevenVentures)
Kinnevik
JP Morgan
DST Global
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Zalando employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
SUSundayEst. 2021
Christine de WendelUnited States
Khaled KandilEgypt
SESeapointEst. 2025
Sean MullaneyIreland
Robert SchützeGermanyGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
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.
23 deals across Zalando's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Zalando'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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Zalando on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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