Rakuten Kobo Inc.
Open up to over 6 million eBooks and audiobooks on award-winning eReaders and the free Rakuten Kobo App. Find Daily Deals, read previews & reviews and get book recommendations.
- Est. revenue
- $50M–$100M
- Total raised
- $79M
- Latest round
- Series C
- Employees
- 729
Funding & revenue at Rakuten Kobo Inc.
How well capitalized the business is — useful context before you scope a fractional engagement or negotiate a rate.
Estimated annual revenue
$50M–$100M
Modeled range, not company-reported
Total capital raised
$79M
4 known investors
Latest round
Series C · $51.6M
Mar 2011
Status
Acquired
Investors
Cheung Kong HoldingsFidelityIndigo Books & MusicInstitutional Investor
Growth signals
How fast Rakuten Kobo Inc. is adding people, roles, and audience.
Employees
729
Reported band 201-500
Open roles
1
-0.8% year over year
LinkedIn followers
33.8K
+19.8% year over year
Headcount change
- MoM
- -0.1%
- QoQ
- +0.7%
- 6mo
- +3.6%
- YoY
- +7%
- 2yr
- +20.1%
-1 people
+5 people
+25 people
+48 people
+122 people
Team composition
Where Rakuten Kobo Inc. concentrates its people — a read on which function a fractional leader would plug into.
By function
- Engineering15521%
- Media And Communication14820%
- Information Technology537%
- Marketing497%
- Operations476%
- Business Development385%
- Sales375%
- Arts And Design284%
By region
- Canada378
- Ontario, Canada334
- Greater Toronto Area, Canada286
- Toronto, ON218
- Nigeria45
- Germany27
Inside Rakuten Kobo Inc.
What the business focuses on, where it operates, and how employees rate it.
Specialties
eBookseReadersGlobal ServiceReading AppsSelf-PublishingWriting LifeOpen PlatformAudiobookseReading
Categories
E-CommerceElectrical DistributionElectronicsInternetNewsRetailSoftwareMedia & Entertainment StoresRetail and wholesale
Markets
PRIVATE
Competitors
Companies in the same market as Rakuten Kobo Inc..
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Rakuten Kobo Inc. in the news
Recent coverage picked up alongside the firmographic refresh.
- Kobo's price-match guarantee just got worse, and it'll cost you on every purchase
Sep 2026
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Sep 2026
- Kobo's biggest fix in years finally ends the sync nightmare that plagued multi-device readers
Sep 2026
- Kobo fixes the e-book syncing problem
Sep 2026
- Rakuten Kobo's major in-store e-reader expansion at Best Buy makes it so easy to shop
Aug 2026
- Media Alert: Rakuten Kobo Expands U.S. Presence with In-Store Availability at Best Buy Stores Nationwide
Aug 2026
Jobs
2
Funding, revenue, headcount, and hiring figures are third-party estimates from public sources and are not confirmed by the company. Last refreshed October 5, 2026.
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