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title: "ByteDance: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company based in Haidian, Beijing. Its associated variable interest entity, ByteDance Ltd, is incorporated in the Cayman Islands."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-bytedance
type: Organization
wikidata: Q55606242
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
website: https://bytedance.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# ByteDance

> ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company based in Haidian, Beijing. Its associated variable interest entity, ByteDance Ltd, is incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-bytedance

## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: People's Republic of China
- Founded: 2016-05-03
- Headquarters: Beijing
- Status: private
- Website: https://bytedance.com/
- Also known as: Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd., Douyin Group, Douyin Limited., Douyin Company Limited, Douyin Co., Ltd.
- Industries: Internet, information technology

## Accounts

- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bytedance
- github: https://github.com/bytedance
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg7lNDgjqMn9GjYgPPtpOrw
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ByteDancer

## Key people

- Zhang Yiming, founder (Chinese technology entrepreneur)

## Investors

- Matt Huang

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: baike.com, Nuverse, [Beijing Microbroadcast Vision Technology](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-beijing-microbroadcast-vision-technology.md), [Yuncheng Sunshine Culture Media](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-yuncheng-sunshine-culture-media.md), [Beijing Flash Star Technology](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-beijing-flash-star-technology.md), [Beijing Douyin Information Service](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-beijing-douyin-information-service.md), [PICO](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-pico.md)

## Products

- Toutiao
- TikTok
- Douyin
- Feishu

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on ByteDance, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-bytedance#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55606242, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

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