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ByteDance's competitors and similar companies include Hyperconnect, Baidu, Kuaishou, YouTube and SINA.
 ByteDance ByteDance is a technology company that develops social media, video sharing, news aggregation, and enterprise collaboration applications. |  Hyperconnect Hyperconnect (하이퍼커넥트) is a technology company that provides video and AI-powered social discovery products. |  Baidu Baidu (百度) is a technology company that develops artificial intelligence technologies and internet-based services. |  Kuaishou Beijing Kuaishou Technology (快手) is a company that operates a short video and content-based social networking platform. | |||
Founding Date | Founding Date 2012 | Founding Date 2014 | Founding Date 2000 | Founding Date 2011 | Founding Date 2006 | Founding Date 1998 |
Type | Type Private | Type Subsidiary | Type Public | Type Subsidiary | Type Subsidiary | Type Subsidiary |
Tags | ||||||
Locations | Locations Beijing, CN HQ Sao Paulo, BR Shanghai, CN Berlin, DE Tokyo, JP London, GB Culver City, US | Locations Seoul, KR HQ | Locations Beijing, CN HQ Beijing, CN Beijing, CN Shanghai, CN Shenzhen, CN Sunnyvale, US | Locations Beijing, CN HQ | Locations San Bruno, US HQ London, GB Los Angeles, US | Locations Beijing, CN HQ |
Employees | Employees 150,00036% increase | Employees 298 | Employees 35,900 | Employees N/A | Employees 127,9542% increase | Employees 4,259 |
Valuation ($) | Valuation ($) 300 b | Valuation ($) N/A | Valuation ($) 31.9 b | Valuation ($) N/A | Valuation ($) N/A | Valuation ($) N/A |
Financial | ||||||
Revenue (est.) | Revenue (est.) $120m (Y, 2023) | Revenue (est.) ₩257.9b (FY, 2020) | Revenue (est.) ¥129.1b (FY, 2025) | Revenue (est.) N/A | Revenue (est.) $14b (Y, 2018) | Revenue (est.) $2.2b (FY, 2019) |
Cost of goods | Cost of goods N/A | Cost of goods N/A | Cost of goods ¥51.4b (FY, 2025) | Cost of goods N/A | Cost of goods N/A | Cost of goods $448.8m (FY, 2019) |
Gross profit | Gross profit N/A | Gross profit N/A | Gross profit ¥77.6b (FY, 2025) | Gross profit N/A | Gross profit N/A | Gross profit $1.7b (FY, 2019) |
Net income | Net income N/A | Net income ₩21b (FY, 2020) | Net income ¥5.5b (FY, 2025) | Net income N/A | Net income N/A | Net income $108.7m (FY, 2019) |
Operating ⚠ | ||||||
Daily Active Users | Daily Active Users 700 m (Jul, 2019) | Daily Active Users N/A | Daily Active Users N/A | Daily Active Users N/A | Daily Active Users N/A | Daily Active Users 165 m (Q3, 2017) |
Monthly Active Users | Monthly Active Users 1.5 b (Jul, 2019) | Monthly Active Users N/A | Monthly Active Users N/A | Monthly Active Users N/A | Monthly Active Users 2 b (May, 2019) | Monthly Active Users 376 m (Q3, 2017) |
Products | Products 7 (Sep, 2020) | Products N/A | Products N/A | Products N/A | Products 8 (Dec, 2022) | Products N/A |
Funding | ||||||
Total funding raised | Total funding raised N/A | Total funding raised $ 10.6m | Total funding raised $ 26.2m | Total funding raised $ 4.4b | Total funding raised $ 11.5m | Total funding raised N/A |
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