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Etsy
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Retailers |
| Website | https://www.etsy.com/ |
Between 2015 and 2025, Etsy researchers released35 AI research articles
- #154in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 23.66citations per AI article on average (#176 in PARAT, #99 in the S&P 500)
- 3highly cited articles (#145 in PARAT, #67 in the S&P 500)
- +44.4%growth in Etsy's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 12articles at top AI conferences (#82 in PARAT, #34 in the S&P 500)
- 59.3%of Etsy's total public research was AI-focused
Etsy's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 4 | 15.5 | -100 |
| NLP publications | 5 | 0.8 | N/A |
| Robotics publications | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| AI safety publications | 4 | 52 | -50 |
| Large language model publications | 3 | 2.3 | N/A |
Between 2015 and 2025, Etsy filed18 AI-related patents
- #230in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 50%growth in Etsy's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 3AI-related patents were granted to Etsy (2017–2020)
- 66.7%of Etsy's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Etsy's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge representation patents | 5 | N/A |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 2 | N/A |
| Control patents | 1 | N/A |
| Computer vision patents | 1 | -100% |
| Language processing patents | 0 | N/A |
Top use cases across Etsy's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 13 | 100% |
| Business patents | 11 | 50% |
| Industrial and manufacturing patents | 1 | N/A |
| Telecommunications patents | 1 | N/A |
| Networks patents | 1 | -100% |
141
AI jobs
According to our data, Etsy currently employs about 141 AI workers (#220 rank in PARAT, #165 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
870
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Etsy currently employs about 870 Tech Team 1 workers (#269 rank in PARAT, #210 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.