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Baidu
eCommerce & Marketplaces · Dongcheng District, China · Founded 1999 · IPO 2005 Decacorn
Maker of Ernie. Artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, and internet search
Baidu mafia
Startups founded by Baidu alumni
Former Baidu employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Dario AmodeiUnited States
Kay ZhuUnited States
Bo ZhangChina
Li ZhuangChina
Gangjiang LiChina
Cheng LiUnited States
Yusen DaiChina
Vakee LaiSingapore
Li WangGermany
Xu CaixingChinaGlobal footprint
Where Baidu has talent and traffic
(30 of 26,293 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2.5B patent portfolio · 18,606 active families
Where Baidu concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Baidu 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
Baidu's 333 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Baidu appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2004–2026. 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.
333 deals across Baidu's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Baidu 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
Baidu'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Baidu
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Baidu 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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