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NIO
Global Chinese company that designs and develops electric autonomous vehicles
At a glance
- Founded
- 2014
- Headquarters
- Huangpu, China
- Listing
- IPO 2018
- Sector
- Transportation
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning NIO.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series B and later14 investors entered at this stage
TPG
Sequoia
MSA Capital- JCJoy Capital
IDG Capital- CMChina Asset Management
- LCLone Pine Capital
Baidu
Baillie Gifford- L(Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group (LCIG)
Hillhouse Capital
Tencent- CCCITIC Capital
GIC
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former NIO employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
LILightwheelEst. 2023
Steve XieChina
SASarla AviationEst. 2023
Rakesh GaonkarIndia
COCompScienceEst. 2019
Josh Butler.United States
Shane KenyonUnited States
Jiaming ZhongCanadaGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
5,626 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 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.
72 deals across NIO's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where NIO 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.
NIO'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 NIO 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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