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ByteDance

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Owns a series of content platforms that enable people to connect with, consume, and create content

Haidian, ChinaFounded 2012Consumer Services
Valuation $500B–1T Last recorded · Feb/2026
Revenue $100–250B Latest reported FY
Headcount 25–50k Current team size
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At a glance

Founded
2012
Headquarters
Haidian, China
Sector
Consumer Services
Power Law
Centicorn$100B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom
News TikTok owner ByteDance lands $29.6B loan, Asia's second-largest this year Sep 3, 2026 News ByteDance draws $30B in orders for record $20B loan Aug 18, 2026 News ByteDance leads China with $4bn in AI revenue, breaks up Lark Jul 30, 2026 Analysis The ByteDance Mafia May 12, 2026

Investors

20 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A1 investor entered at this stage

  • SIG China

Series B and later19 investors entered at this stage

Ownership

Share of equity by holder

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (Feb/2026). Percentages are indicative.

21% Founders
  • 10%
  • 7%
  • 5%
  • 4%

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Talent

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Employees mapped 48,210 incl. 418 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 325 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.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former ByteDance employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

GensparkEst. 2023
Lenjoy LinUnited States
Signal score96
Beijing Aishi Technology | PixVerseEst. 2023
Changhu WangChina
Signal score95
HeyGenEst. 2020
Wayne LiangUnited States
Signal score95
Manus AIEst. 2022
Tao ZhangSingapore
Signal score94
OpusEst. 2022
GWGrace WangUnited States
Signal score94
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
52 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China57.4%
🇺🇸 United States10.8%
🇸🇬 Singapore6.5%
🇲🇾 Malaysia6.5%
🇮🇩 Indonesia5.9%
Top 5 of 52 shown
Web traffic by country
4.9M monthly visits
across markets
🇨🇳 China68.4%
🇺🇸 United States4.6%
🇮🇳 India2.1%
🇵🇭 Philippines1.8%
🇹🇭 Thailand1.7%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$2.8B

7,367 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where ByteDance was the backer or acquirer, 2015–2026. 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

80 deals across ByteDance's capital deployment.

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

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        Where ByteDance deploys vs peers

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        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about ByteDance 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

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