ByteDance
Sign in to saveByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing. Its associated variable-interest entity ByteDance Ltd is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
Key facts
- Company.name
- ByteDance Ltd.
- Company.logo
- ByteDance logo English.svg
- Company.logo_upright
- 1.1
- Company.image
- ByteDance 1733 Commercial Space (20240731145554).jpg
- Company.image_upright
- 1.1
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters at Building 2, 1733 Commercial Space (also known as Dazhongsi Square), Beijing
- Company.native_name
- 字节跳动有限公司
- Company.native_name_lang
- ZH
- Company.former_name
- Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd. (2012-2018) Douyin Group (HK) Ltd. (2018–2022)
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- Internet
- Company.revenue
- US$155 billion (2024)
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.owner
- Zhang Yiming (over 50% voting control)Sequoia Capital SoftBank Group KKR & Co.
- Company.num_employees
- (2025)
- Company.incorporated
- Cayman Islands
- Network service provider.child
- yes
- Chinese.title
- Zijie Tiaodong
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38 sectionsContents
- History
- Launch of first apps
- 2016 to present
- Corporate affairs
- Funding and ownership
- Management
- Board of Directors
- Partnerships
- Lobbying and political ad campaigns
- Products
- CapCut
- Doubao
- Douyin
- Lark
- TikTok
- TikTok Music
- Toutiao
- Xigua Video
- Nuverse
- Volcano Engine
- Whee
- Seed and Seed-oss
- Seedream
- Seedance
- Other products and acquisitions
- Censorship, surveillance, and data privacy concerns
- Government regulation
- China
- India
- Ireland
- Taiwan
- Turkey
- United States
- ''TikTok, Inc. v. Garland''
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- External links
ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing. Its associated variable-interest entity ByteDance Ltd is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing app TikTok/Douyin. The company is also the developer of the news platform Toutiao, the video-editing app CapCut, and Lemon8 which is a video sharing mobile app. Furthermore, the company develops generative AI models both for the Chinese and international markets.
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