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DiDi
Chinese taxi-hailing app
At a glance
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Dongcheng District, China
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning DiDi.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later25 investors entered at this stage
SoftBank- CICherry Tree Investments
Breyer Capital- TCToyota Motor Corporation
- FGFoxconn Technology Group
- PGPing An Group
Coatue Management- SCSB China Capital
- CCCITIC Capital
Shervin Pishevar- CGCapital Group
- CBChina Merchants Bank
- BHBooking Holdings
- GEGreen Sands Equity
DST Global
Temasek- CIChina Life Insurance
Apple
Alibaba
NEA- BCBank of Communications
- CCChina Investment Corporation
Notable Capital
Silver Lake Partners
Tencent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former DiDi employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
RORoboForceEst. 2023
BIBidbus incEst. 2020
Cory(Hongrui) KuangUnited States
Euan CassieMexico
RTRELX TechnologyEst. 2019
Jiang Long (David)China
Joao CostaBrazilGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
102 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 DiDi 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.
45 deals across DiDi's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where DiDi 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.
DiDi'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 DiDi 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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.
