# eBay

> eBay is a VC fund in San Jose backing E-Commerce and Marketplace. See 54 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Jose, United States
- Total investments: 54
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ebay
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/eBay
- Website: http://ebay.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/eBay

eBay is a global online marketplace connecting millions of buyers and sellers. It enables users to buy, sell, and auction a wide variety of goods, including electronics, clothing, collectibles, and more. eBay offers a secure platform with features like buyer protection, seller ratings, and international shipping options, making transactions safeand convenient.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for eBay. Shizune tracks 15 team members at eBay. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/ebay?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $20k–$2M |
| Series C | $3M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 19 | 35% |
| Marketplace | 15 | 28% |
| Internet | 11 | 20% |
| Mobile | 5 | 9% |
| Classifieds | 5 | 9% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 8 | 15% |
| Seed | 7 | 13% |
| Series C | 7 | 13% |
| Series A | 6 | 11% |
| Series B | 6 | 11% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 44% |
| India | 5 | 9% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chih-Tao Yeh | Market Insights Analytics Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chih-tao-yeh |
| Dan Tarman | SVP & CCO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-tarman |
| Gna Phetsarath | Big Data Deep Learning Pipeline Wrangler | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gna-phetsarath |
| Jamie Iannone | CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-iannone |
| Jennifer Scott | COO, Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-scott-3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fleek | Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres. | $25M | Series B | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| COMC | CheckOutMyCards.com takes the latest technology and applies it to card collecting. They desire to continually impress their customers by offering the best service and making it easier and more fun to collect cards. |  | Corporate Round | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Funko | Funko provides branded pop culture products to a diverse range of consumers and retail channels.Funko currently holds hundreds of licenses and the rights to create tens of thousands of characters - one of the largest portfolios in the pop culture and collectibles industry. Funko’s Pop! Vinyl is the number one stylized vinyl collectible on themarket, selling millions of figures to collectors around the world. | $263M | Post-IPO Secondary | May 05, 2022 |  |
| Optoro | Optoro is a technology company that connects a seamless online returns experience with efficient supply chain processing and resale. From providing an online portal to improve customer returns to technology that streamlines processing by routing inventory to its next best home, the company offers solutions for retailers and brands looking toimprove outcomes across all points in the returns process. | $25M | Series E | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Heyday | Heyday offers a digital marketplace space built for sellers to accelerate consumer product brands.It aims to amplify the eCommerce entrepreneurs' marketplace brand. Heyday is backed by General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, and Arbor Ventures.The San Francisco-based company started in August 2020 and is founded by Sebastian Rymarz and AdamGerchen. | $175M | Series A | Nov 18, 2020 |  |
| Paytm Mall | Paytm E-Commerce is the online consumer marketplace division of One97 Communications' Paytm brand. It operates Paytm Mall, an online and mobile marketplace. | $150M | Corporate Round | Jul 18, 2019 |  |
| African Diaspora Network | The African Diaspora Network is a registered non-profit organization. Their mission is to sustainably serve their constituencies, the marketplace, and partners. This is inextricably linked to engaging the African diaspora through an ethics of care, enhancing their well-being in their adopted homelands, and facilitating their strategic involvementin the development of Africa. | $45K | Grant | Jul 10, 2019 |  |
| Flipkart | Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace that offers over 30 million products across 70+ categories. It provides books, movies, music, games, consoles, gaming accessories, mobiles, mobile accessories, cameras, camera accessories, computers, computer accessories, network components, software, peripherals, home and kitchen appliances, TV, and videoproducts, and personal and health care products. Flipkart, currently 33,000 people strong, has 75 million registered users clocking over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart’s technology has enabled it to deliver 8 million shipments per month – and this number is only growing.Binny and Sachin Bansal founded Flipkart in 2007, with headquarters in Bengaluru in India. In 2018, the company was acquired by the giant retail corporation, |  | Corporate Round | Oct 25, 2017 |  |
| Hellomarket | HelloMarket allows anyone (mostly in Korea atm) to buy, sell, and exchange their goods and services to anyone else.Beyond making everything much easier than what it was like on a desktop, we are winning the highly developed and sophisticated Korean market by:1) Focusing on maintaining a clean marketplace not dominated by professionalsellers, spam, and fraudsters 2) Going beyond face-to-face transactions by enabling in-app shipping and secure escrow payments 3) Being all-around awesome |  |  | Sep 29, 2017 |  |
| Flipkart | Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace that offers over 30 million products across 70+ categories. It provides books, movies, music, games, consoles, gaming accessories, mobiles, mobile accessories, cameras, camera accessories, computers, computer accessories, network components, software, peripherals, home and kitchen appliances, TV, and videoproducts, and personal and health care products. Flipkart, currently 33,000 people strong, has 75 million registered users clocking over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart’s technology has enabled it to deliver 8 million shipments per month – and this number is only growing.Binny and Sachin Bansal founded Flipkart in 2007, with headquarters in Bengaluru in India. In 2018, the company was acquired by the giant retail corporation, | $1.4B | Series J | Apr 10, 2017 |  |

10 of 54 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Benchmark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benchmark) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Kodiak Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kodiak-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Southern Capitol Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/southern-capitol-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Storm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/storm-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Advanced Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advanced-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does eBay invest in?

eBay invests primarily in E-Commerce, Marketplace and Internet startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is eBay's check size?

eBay typically joins rounds of $20k–$2M at Seed and $3M–$50M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds eBay participates in.

### How do I contact eBay?

Public channels for eBay include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at eBay?

The team at eBay includes Chih-Tao Yeh (Market Insights Analytics Manager), Dan Tarman (SVP & CCO) and Gna Phetsarath (Big Data Deep Learning Pipeline Wrangler), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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