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NetEase
Offers online game services, advertising services, and wireless value-added services in China
At a glance
- Founded
- 1997
- Headquarters
- Guangzhou, China
- Listing
- IPO 2000
- Sector
- Consumer Services
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
More headlines
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former NetEase employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
XAxAIEst. 2023
PTPaXini TechEst. 2021
Xiangru Mark NieChina
FOFotorEst. 2009
Tao PengChina
HUHuyaEst. 2014
David Xueling LiChina
YUYuanfudaoEst. 2012
Xin LiChinaGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
11,779 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 NetEase was the backer or acquirer, 2014–2025. 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.
73 deals across NetEase's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where NetEase 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.
NetEase's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about NetEase 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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