# Baidu

> Baidu is a VC fund in Beijing backing Internet and Artificial Intelligence. See 131 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 131
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Fund size: $1.5B
- Last fund: Sep 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/baidu-inc
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/BaiduResearch
- Website: http://www.baidu.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Baidu-8096389511/

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Baidu. Shizune tracks 12 team members at Baidu. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/baidu?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.5M–$184M |
| Series B | $2.8M–$553M |
| Series C | $14M–$425M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 16 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 11% |
| Software | 14 | 11% |
| Manufacturing | 12 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 9% |

166 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 31 | 24% |
| Series B | 26 | 20% |
| Series C | 17 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 7% |
| Seed | 8 | 6% |

16 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| China | 91 | 69% |
| United States | 14 | 11% |
| Israel | 2 | 2% |
| Nepal | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bobby Chao | Investor | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-chao |
| Frankie Ho | General Manager of Baidu International | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frankie-ho |
| Hui Xiong | Head of Business Intelligence Lab | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hui-xiong |
| Long Qian | Autonomous Driving Commercialization Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/long-qian |
| Robin Li | Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robin-li |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Humanoid Robot Innovation Center | Humanoid Robot Innovation Center develops prototypes of universal humanoid robot bodies. | $100.9M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| 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 AI | Vanus built data pipelines and big model Middleware.Vanus is a Serverless, event streaming system with processing capabilities |  | Seed | Jan 06, 2026 |  |
| Vizard | 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 | Duxiang uses AI technology to create personalized social scenes. |  | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Lessie AI | 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) | 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 |  |
| Infimind | 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 | Small Design is an intelligent design delivery platform. |  | Series B | Nov 08, 2024 |  |

10 of 131 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Matrix Partners China](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matrix-partners-china) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Hillhouse Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillhouse-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IDG Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/idg-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [JD.com](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jd-com) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [CDH Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cdh-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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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 131 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Baidu's check size?

Baidu typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$184M at Series A, $2.8M–$553M at Series B and $14M–$425M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Baidu participates in.

### How do I contact Baidu?

Public channels for Baidu include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Baidu?

The team at Baidu includes Bobby Chao (Investor), Frankie Ho (General Manager of Baidu International) and Hui Xiong (Head of Business Intelligence Lab), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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