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Baidu

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Dongcheng District, China · Founded 1999 · IPO 2005

Maker of Ernie. Artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and internet search

Valuation $32B
Revenue $18B
EBITDA $3.34B

Talent graph

Baidu's talent

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Employees mapped 26,502 incl. 30 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 27 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

6 investors on Baidu's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Peninsula Capital
Integrity Partners
Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage

Global footprint

Where Baidu has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
32 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China94.8%
🇺🇸 United States2%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong0.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.6%
🇸🇬 Singapore0.3%
Top 5 of 32 shown
Web traffic by country
1.8B monthly visits
across markets
🇨🇳 China92.4%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong1.2%
🇹🇼 Taiwan1.2%
🇺🇸 United States1%
🇸🇬 Singapore0.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$2.2B patent portfolio · 18,079 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$2.2B
7.1% of market cap · 52.4× larger than top peer GitHub ($43M)
18,079 active patent families
Where Baidu innovates Computer engineeringData miningData processingData scienceDeep learning

Where Baidu concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Baidu and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Baidu's 333 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Baidu appeared as a 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.

Portfolio analysis

333 deals across Baidu's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        333 of 333 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Baidu

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Baidu on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        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

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