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Rocket Internet

Corporate · Founded 2007 · Berlin, Germany

#499 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 3% of investors worldwide

Rocket Internet, accessible at rocket-internet.com, is a global startup incubator and investment firm that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to build market-leading companies.

165 Portfolio companies+39% in 5 years
8 Unicorns
1 Decacorns
105 Investments
Dec 2024 Last investment
01 · Biggest holdings

Rocket Internet’s biggest current holdings.

Rocket Internet is a named shareholder in 3 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $5M in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 3 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Koru KidsJobs Recruitment · Colt 3.2% $79M $3M
  2. 2 iwocaMarketing · Thoroughbred 1.45% $132M $2M
  3. 3 MatillionEnterprise Software · Unicorn 0.05% $1.5B $750K

Estimated value = Rocket Internet’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Rocket Internet also appears inside investor groups in Nium, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Exits

Rocket Internet’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Rocket Internet’s transaction record.

$4.8B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $15BFood
$10B IPO · 2024
Now $5.8BFood
$5.8B IPO · 2014
Now $6.5BFashion
$2.2B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $714MFintech
$2.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series AMarketing
$2.0B IPO · 2018
Now $1.0BFintech
$1.9B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $443MFood
03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Rocket Internet’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 165 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. Germany60
  2. UK13
  3. Brazil11
  4. India9
  5. Singapore8
  6. Spain6
  7. USA6
  8. Australia5
  9. France4
  10. Nigeria4
  11. Burma (Myanmar)3
  12. Indonesia3
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech32
  2. Food23
  3. Fashion21
  4. Home Living17
  5. Real Estate16
  6. Transportation16
  7. Enterprise Software13
  8. Marketing12
  9. Travel12
  10. Jobs Recruitment9
  11. Media7
  12. Wellness Beauty6
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed28
  2. Series B+24
  3. Series A19
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth88
  2. Breakout Stage44
  3. Late Growth32
  4. Mature1
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Rocket Internet’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 165 tracked.

Lazada
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.1B
Delivery Hero
Food · Decacorn
$15B
Jumia Group
Fintech
$714M
Personio
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$5.0B
Foodpanda
Food
$500M
Global Fashion Group
Fashion
$12M
HelloFresh
Food
$443M
Funding Circle
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.0B
Knotel
Real Estate
$70M
Nium
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.4B
Tink
Home Living
$176M
Grover
Home Living
$66M
Dafiti
Fashion
$317M
Linio
Wellness Beauty
$138M
Urban Sports Club
Sports
$600M
Westwing
Fashion
$224M
Jupiter
Fintech
$711M
Home24
Home Living
$398M
Zalando
Fashion · Unicorn
$6.5B
Flipdish
Food · Unicorn
$1.3B
Billie
Fintech
$640M
Spenmo
Fintech
$340M
Getsafe
Fintech
$252M
Movinga
Real Estate
$66M
Helpling
Home Living
$88M
Tiko
Real Estate
$260M
Wimdu
Travel
$1.0M
Sonovate
Fintech
$290M
Spotcap
Fintech
$97M
Lamoda
Fashion
$130M
Easy Taxi
Transportation
$160M
SoSafe
Security
$292M
Flash Coffee
Food
$164M
Borro
Fintech
$30M
Goodlord
Marketing
$143M
Ofload
Transportation
$226M
GLOSSYBOX
Wellness Beauty
$94M
Atolls
Marketing
$52M
Iziwork
Jobs Recruitment
$154M
Daraz
Wellness Beauty
$222M
Payleven Brazil
Fintech
$40M
Jabong
Fashion
$70M
Xrex
Fintech
$75M
The Coterie
Fintech
$160M
Tenderd
Real Estate
$120M
Lingxi
Fintech
$110M
Payflow
Fintech
$55M
Proprioo
Real Estate
$88M
iPrice
Fashion
$20M
Ads.com.mm
Fintech
$16M
Everstox
Transportation
$88M
Room00 Group
Travel
$41M
Digifin
Fintech
$46M
ZenRooms
Travel
$60M
Koru Kids
Kids
$22M
Chefclub
Food
$68M
enshift
Real Estate
$59M
Lendico
Fintech
$88M
Zando
Fashion
$88M
Locondo.jp | Jade Group
Fashion
$120M
05 · Portfolio founders

Where Rocket Internet’s portfolio founders come from.

133 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. Germany46
  2. Spain16
  3. United Kingdom12
  4. United States7
  5. France5
  6. Singapore5
  7. Peru4
  8. Switzerland4
  9. Brazil3
  10. India3
UniversityCount
  1. London School of Economics and Political Science7
  2. EBS University6
  3. INSEAD Business School6
  4. WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management6
  5. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich5
  6. Technical University Munich5
  7. University of St.Gallen5
  8. ESCP Business School4
  9. University of Cambridge4
  10. Harvard Business School3
Previous companyCount
  1. Rocket Internet16
  2. Boston Consulting Group14
  3. McKinsey & Company13
  4. Bain & Company6
  5. Groupon5
  6. Deloitte3
  7. eBay3
  8. HelloFresh3
  9. KPMG3
  10. Roland Berger3