Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos.

Who are Amazon's investors?

Amazon's investors include Access Technology Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Madrona Venture Group, Madrona Venture Labs, Redwood Collective, Rogue Insight Capital, Silver Lake Partners, Union Grove Venture Partners and 1 more.

Where is Amazon headquartered?

Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, US.

Amazon

also invests · investor profile

Seattle, US · 9 known investors

Find your way into Amazon

52 people in our graph share verified history with the Amazon team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Atad Peledunlockedknows Jeff Bezos · together at Amazon

×11knows the team · via Amazon

Amazon operates the largest online retail marketplace in the world alongside Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing division, plus advertising, logistics and streaming media businesses.

B2B Marketplaces Consumer E-commerce Marketplaces

Founders & leadership

Jeff Bezos Founder & Executive ChairmanFounder of Amazon and Blue Origin

Andy JassyPresident and Chief Executive Officer

Brian OlsavskyChief Financial Officer

Jane Mooney Robotics Strategy and Risk Mgmt - Director2011–2021Co-founder & VP, Strategy and Finance at Collaborative Robotics

Investors · 9

Access Technology Ventureslisted by Access Technology VenturesMill Valley

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Kleiner Perkinslisted by Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M

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Madrona Venture Grouplisted by Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M

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Madrona Venture Labslisted by Madrona Venture LabsSeattle

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Redwood Collectivelisted by Redwood CollectiveSilicon Valley

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Rogue Insight Capitallisted by Rogue Insight CapitalMarkham

Silver Lake Partnerslisted by Silver Lake PartnersMenlo Park

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Union Grove Venture Partnerslisted by Union Grove Venture PartnersChapel Hill

Vintage Investment Partnerslisted by Vintage Investment PartnersHerzliya

Founder mafia

The Amazon mafia →

16 people who came through Amazon went on to found or lead other companies.

Jane MooneyDirector, Robotics Strategy & Risk ManagementFounded Collaborative Robotics Sundeep AhujaPrincipal Business Development Manager - Startups & AI/MLFounded Blissmo +1 Kiran GolluFounding EngineerFounded Oodle +1 Daniel DeCovnickSoftware Development EngineerFounded Observant AI +1 Daksh GuptaEngineerFounded Tabnam +1 Hunter HodnettSoftware Development EngineerFounded Chipp +1 Serhii SokolenkoPrincipal Product ManagerFounded Tower list view Wei Lien DangSenior Product ManagerFounded Stackrox Akshay RamaswamySoftware Development EngineerFounded Omni Shivam BharukaSoftware Engineer InternFounded Finn Eric ChenSoftware Development ManagerFounded Cakework Kamil AliSoftware Engineering InternFounded Plutis

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Acquisitions · 5

Early investors' stakes continue via these deals

1Life Healthcare

1Life Healthcare operated One Medical, a membership-based primary care organization offering in-person clinics and virtual care across the United States. Acquired by Amazon in 2023.

Covariantai

AI software using deep imitation and reinforcement learning to teach robots complex skills.

One Medical

NASDAQ: ONEM; acquired by Amazon

TextPayMe

TextPayMe was a mobile person-to-person payment service that let users send money via text messages. Acquired by Amazon in 2006 and later relaunched as Amazon's TextBuyIt/Amazon payments efforts.

TSO Logic, Inc.

Uses machine learning algorithms and pattern matching to match computing workloads to optimal public or private cloud options, reducing costs and improving efficiency; acquired by Amazon Web Services in 2019.

Frequently asked questions

What does Amazon do?: Amazon operates the largest online retail marketplace in the world alongside Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing division, plus advertising, logistics and streaming media businesses.
Who founded Amazon?: Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos.
Who are Amazon's investors?: Amazon's investors include Access Technology Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Madrona Venture Group, Madrona Venture Labs, Redwood Collective, Rogue Insight Capital, Silver Lake Partners, Union Grove Venture Partners and 1 more.
Where is Amazon headquartered?: Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, US.