# Sogou

> Sogou is a VC fund in Beijing backing Q&A, Health Care and Apps. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Beijing, China
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2020
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sogou/
- Website: https://www.sogou.com/

Sogou is a VC fund in Beijing focused on Q&A and Health Care. Sogou.com is a Chinese search engine that enables users to search text, images, music, and maps. Sogou's product line is divided into two major domains: web and desktop applications. Web application products are designed to classify online information such as music, pictures, video clips, news, maps, and vertical information. Desktopapplications aim to improve the user experience. Sogou Chinese Input is input software in China that helps users increase their typing speed. Sogou Browser adopts real dual-core techniques to accelerate online surfing speed for internet users and connects them with the cloud to recognize malicious websites and software. Sogou.com was launched on the 3rd of August in 2004.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Sogou. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Sogou. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/sogou?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Q&A | 2 | 67% |
| Health Care | 2 | 67% |
| Apps | 1 | 33% |
| Medical | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |
| Series D | 1 | 33% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hongtao Yang | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hongtao-yang |
| Tao Hong | Chief Marketing Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tao-hong-943d |
| Yi Zhou | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-zhou-d0c0 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chunyu Yisheng | Chunyu Yisheng is a mobile application that enables physicians and their patients to communicate with each other.The application provides physicians with access to their patients’ medical records. Furthermore, it enables the patients to communicate and schedule appointments with the doctors. In addition, it offers reservation line treatmentservices to its users.Chunyu Yisheng was launched in 2011 by Rui Zhang and is based in Beijing. |  | Corporate Round | Mar 06, 2020 |  |
| Airdoc | Harnessing the power of AI and our extensive machine-learned database of millions of annotated medical records, we provide software for diagnosis assistance, real-time medical image analysis, large-scale data mining of clinical and health data. Our highly accurate image diagnosis software works with images from eye, skin, brain, cardiovascular,lung, liver, bone, breast and more to quickly and reliably assist clinicians as well as all healthcare consumers. |  | Series B | Apr 02, 2018 |  |
| Zhihu | Zhihu (知乎) is a Chinese socialized website for questions and answers. It differs from traditional online question and answer forums by enabling users to obtain information through questions that provoke the opinions and views from answerers as individuals. The number of registered users on Zhihu has surpassed 300,000 by the end of January 2012. | $103.4M | Series D | Jan 11, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capital Today](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-today) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fosun International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fosun-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Qiming Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qiming-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sinovation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sinovation-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tencent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tencent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Sogou invest in?

Sogou invests primarily in Q&A, Health Care and Apps startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Sogou?

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### Who are the partners at Sogou?

The team at Sogou includes Hongtao Yang (Chief Technology Officer), Tao Hong (Chief Marketing Officer) and Yi Zhou (Chief Financial Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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