Amazon

Public

The world's largest e-commerce marketplace and a leading cloud computing provider through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Also operates in advertising, streaming, and AI.

Founders Jeff Bezos

Company

Founded
1994
Headquarters
Seattle, US
Employees
5000+

Financials

Total Funding
-
Revenue (ARR)
$1B+

Public Market

Exchange
NASDAQ
Ticker
AMZN
IPO Date
May 15, 1997

Investment Portfolio

7 companies via Amazon Web Services, Amazon
OpenAI $167.9B
Private via Amazon

AI research company building artificial general intelligence, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and the OpenAI API platform.

Anthropic $53.4B
Private via Amazon

AI safety company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Creator of the Claude family of large language models, Anthropic conducts frontier research on constitutional AI and alignment techniques to develop powerful AI that is safe and beneficial.

Databricks $20.0B
Private via Amazon Web Services

Data and AI company that provides a unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark, enabling data engineering, data science, and machine learning at scale.

Scale AI $15.9B
Private via Amazon

AI data infrastructure company that provides data labeling, model evaluation, and software to accelerate the development of AI applications for enterprises, government agencies, and AI labs.

Rappi $2.3B
Private via Amazon

Latin American super-app providing on-demand delivery of food, groceries, and goods, along with digital financial services including payments, credit cards, and banking across nine countries in the region.

Hugging Face $395M
Private via Amazon

Open-source platform and community for machine learning, providing tools, pre-trained models, and datasets that enable developers and researchers to build, train, and deploy AI models, often called the GitHub of machine learning

Twilio $233M
Public via Amazon

Cloud communications platform that provides programmable APIs for voice, SMS, video, and email, enabling developers to embed communication capabilities directly into their applications. Twilio powers customer engagement for hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide.

Notable Acquisitions

3 companies
MGM Holdings Mar 17, 2022
$8.5B

Iconic Hollywood studio with a library of over 4,000 films and 17,000 TV episodes. Home to franchises like James Bond, Rocky, and The Handmaid's Tale.

Whole Foods Market Aug 28, 2017
$13.7B

Premium natural and organic grocery retailer operating over 500 stores across the US, Canada, and the UK.

Twitch Aug 25, 2014
$970M

Live streaming platform for gamers and creators, originally launched as Justin.tv in 2007. Spun off its gaming vertical as Twitch.tv in June 2011, becoming the world's leading live video platform for gaming content before Amazon's acquisition.

Funding History

IPO May 15, 1997
NASDAQ: AMZN

Funding data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.