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Baidu
Maker of Ernie. Artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and internet search
At a glance
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- Dongcheng District, China
- Listing
- IPO 2005
- Sector
- eCommerce & Marketplaces
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
News
Baidu, Yunfeng back Agibot's embodied AI data unit Mifeng
Jul 8, 2026
News
Kling AI raises $2.8B at $15B valuation, backed by Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu
Jul 3, 2026
News
Baidu's chip arm Kunlunxin eyes $50B Hong Kong IPO — with a catch
Jun 29, 2026
Analysis
The Baidu Mafia
May 12, 2026
Market map
SuperApps
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Baidu.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
- PCPeninsula Capital
- IPIntegrity Partners
Series B and later4 investors entered at this stage
Alphabet | Google
Threshold Ventures
IDG Capital- ECePlanet Capital
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Baidu employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
WEWeRideEst. 2017
XAxAIEst. 2023
DIDiDiEst. 2012
Bo ZhangChina
ANAnthropicEst. 2021
Dario AmodeiUnited States
GEGensparkEst. 2023
Eric JingUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
18,079 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Baidu was the backer or acquirer, 2004–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
333 deals across Baidu's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Baidu deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Baidu's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Baidu on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Baidu on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.