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ByteDance
Consumer Services · Haidian, China · Founded 2012
Talent graph
ByteDance's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Ownership
Who owns ByteDance
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (Feb/2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
ByteDance mafia
Startups founded by ByteDance alumni
Former ByteDance employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Lenjoy LinUnited States
Changhu WangChina
Wayne LiangUnited States
Tao ZhangSingapore
Yibo ZhuChina
Dakotah RiceUnited States
Bing WuUnited States
Jason HuUnited States
Kisson LinSingaporeGlobal footprint
Where ByteDance has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2.8B patent portfolio · 7,367 active families
Where ByteDance concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across ByteDance and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
ByteDance's 80 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where ByteDance appeared as a 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.
80 deals across ByteDance's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where ByteDance 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
ByteDance'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
What the market is saying about ByteDance
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about ByteDance 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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