Baidu
VC Fund
Beijing, China
Baidu is a search engine that enables individuals to obtain information and finds what they need. Baidu offers functional online search, Tieba community search, industry-based vertical search, mp3 search, portal channels, and instant messaging services. Its products include Baidu Webpage, Baidu Video, Baidu Map, hao123.com, BaiduPedia, Baidu Input,Baidu Toolbar, TTPlayer, Iqiyi, and Sky Software.
- Total investments:
- 138
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 54%
- Fund size:
- $1.5B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Baidu invests in
Stages Baidu invests in
Countries Baidu invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 14 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $3.7M–$194M
- Series B
- $3M–$594M
- Series C
- $14M–$446M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 16 (12%)
- Artificial Intelligence 16 (12%)
- Software 14 (10%)
- Manufacturing 12 (9%)
- Information Technology 12 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 32 (23%)
- Series B 26 (19%)
- Series C 17 (12%)
- Corporate Round 9 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (7%)
Country
- China 92 (67%)
- United States 14 (10%)
- Israel 2 (1%)
- Nepal 1 (1%)
- Brazil 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bobby Chao
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Frankie Ho
General Manager of Baidu International
|
General Manager of Baidu International | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
|
Guobin Shang
Deputy Director
|
Deputy Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Hui Xiong
Head of Business Intelligence Lab
|
Head of Business Intelligence Lab | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Long Qian
Autonomous Driving Commercialization Manager
|
Autonomous Driving Commercialization Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Humanoid Robot Innovation Center
|
Humanoid Robot Innovation Center develops prototypes of universal humanoid robot bodies. | $100.9M / Seed / Feb 03, 2026 | |
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Noumena
|
Noumena is an AI-powered growth intelligence firm. It focused on brand growth to develop AI agents for marketing decision-making and execution, allowing marketing to transition from depending on human experience to a learnable and evolving intelligent system. | Seed / Jan 15, 2026 | |
|
Lingao Technology
|
Lingao Technology dedicates to the development and application of advanced technological solution | Angel / Jan 06, 2026 | |
| Vanus built data pipelines and big model Middleware.Vanus is a Serverless, event streaming system with processing capabilities | Seed / Jan 06, 2026 | ||
| Vizard, a web-based solution for video content repurposing. We aim to help content marketers fully utilize what they have on hand, create stunning content at scale and reach more audiences. | Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Duxiang uses AI technology to create personalized social scenes. | Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Lessie AI is your AI Agent for people search — helping you instantly find clients, partners, investors, and experts across LinkedIn, X (Twitter), GitHub, and more. It uses a multi-agent system to automate people search, profile analysis, and connection building across major social and professional networks. | Pre-Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| True Talents For China (TTC) is a digital and intelligent professional talent service company that provides digital platforms, business platforms, data platforms, enterprise cloud services, and other services. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Infinind is a provider of artificial intelligence technology and solutions focused on fashion. With massive fashion data, international leading computer vision algorithms and engineering capabilities, and with the vision of "fashion for good", we are committed to making fashion more cool.The company has top talent reserves. Thefounding team comes from the National Key Laboratory of artificial intelligence, network, etc. of the computing Department of Tsinghua University. It also has a consulting team composed of professors from top universities at home and abroad, such as Tsinghua University, people's Congress, MIT, Stanford, NUS, etc.At the beginning of its establishment, the company obtained close attention from the top capital, and now it has obtained billion class a rounds of financing from famous institutions such as Jinshajiang, magic measure, Sequoia, Turing, etc. | $13.8M / Series B / Feb 25, 2025 | ||
| Small Design is an intelligent design delivery platform. | Series B / Nov 08, 2024 | ||
| See all 138 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Baidu invest in?
Baidu invests primarily in Internet, Artificial Intelligence and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 138 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Baidu invest in?
Baidu typically joins rounds of $3.7M–$194M at Series A, $3M–$594M at Series B and $14M–$446M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Baidu's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Baidu took part in.
How do I contact Baidu?
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Who are the partners at Baidu?
The team at Baidu includes Bobby Chao (Investor), Frankie Ho (General Manager of Baidu International) and Guobin Shang (Deputy Director), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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