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Global Chinese company that designs and develops electric autonomous vehicles

Huangpu, ChinaFounded 2014Transportation
Valuation $12B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $19B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $1.18B Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2014
Headquarters
Huangpu, China
Listing
IPO 2018
Sector
Transportation
Power Law
Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom

Investors

14 investors on the cap table

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

Series B and later14 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 5,104 incl. 19 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 18 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 NIO employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

LightwheelEst. 2023
Steve XieChina
Signal score92
Sarla AviationEst. 2023
Rakesh GaonkarIndia
Signal score89
CompScienceEst. 2019
Josh Butler.United States
Signal score86
SupersedeEst. 2024
Shane KenyonUnited States
Signal score84
LoopX AIEst. 2022
Jiaming ZhongCanada
Signal score80
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
35 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China74.2%
🇩🇪 Germany8.8%
🇺🇸 United States5%
🇳🇱 Netherlands2.4%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.3%
Top 5 of 35 shown
Web traffic by country
850K monthly visits
across markets
🇨🇳 China52.6%
🇩🇪 Germany8.1%
🇮🇩 Indonesia4.3%
🇺🇸 United States2.9%
🇸🇬 Singapore2.3%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$318M

5,626 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 NIO was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2026. 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

72 deals across NIO's capital deployment.

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

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        Where NIO deploys vs peers

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        NIO's portfolio, mapped.

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        72 of 72 deals

        Market sentiment

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        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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