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BYD

Transportation · Shenzhen, China · Founded 1995 · IPO 2011

Engaged in the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of automobiles, secondary rechargeable batteries, and more

Valuation $115B
Revenue $126B
EBITDA $17B
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

1 investor on BYD's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history.

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
Berkshire Hathaway

Global footprint

Where BYD has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
73 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China61.7%
🇧🇷 Brazil5.7%
🇺🇸 United States3.7%
🇮🇳 India2.9%
🇹🇭 Thailand2.7%
Top 5 of 73 shown
Web traffic by country
9.4M monthly visits
across markets
🇧🇷 Brazil16.4%
🇨🇳 China10.3%
🇮🇩 Indonesia8.1%
🇩🇪 Germany7.5%
🇪🇸 Spain6.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$1.9B patent portfolio · 31,778 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$1.9B
1.7% of market cap · 6.1× larger than top peer NIO ($318M)
31,778 active patent families
Where BYD innovates Automotive engineeringBattery cellBattery packControl theoryElectrical and Electronics engineering

Where BYD concentrates vs peers

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

Compare against

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

Capital deployed

BYD's 38 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where BYD appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2013–2026. 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

38 deals across BYD's capital deployment.

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

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        BYD'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
        38 of 38 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about BYD

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BYD 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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