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Sohu.com operates a comprehensive online media platform, delivering internet products and services across PC and mobile devices in China. Its core offerings include online advertising, extensive content channels, and a significant online game business. The company integrates digital properties, providing engaging user experiences and reach for businesses.
Dr. Charles Zhang founded Sohu in 1996, establishing one of China's earliest internet ventures. With a Ph.D. in experimental physics from MIT, Dr. Zhang saw that China's burgeoning internet market needed a comprehensive portal to organize information and deliver digital services to its expanding user base.
Sohu.com primarily serves a vast Chinese audience seeking online content and entertainment, while offering advertising channels for businesses. The company continuously evolves its media and gaming ecosystems to meet changing user preferences. Sohu's vision focuses on sustaining its prominent position in the Chinese internet market by enhancing its platform and expanding its digital service footprint.
Sohu.com has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round.
Sohu.com has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Sohu.com Ltd. (SOHU) is a leading Chinese online media, search, and gaming company that delivers content, search services, and games across PC and mobile platforms.[1][2] Operating through three core segments—Sohu (brand advertising and media content), Sogou (search and related advertising), and Changyou (online games, platform advertising, and cinema ads)—it serves a vast user base with information, entertainment, and communication tools, headquartered in Beijing with around 4,900 employees.[1][2] While not an investment firm, Sohu has shown robust financial momentum, including Q3 revenue of $180 million, up 19% year-over-year and 43% quarter-over-quarter.[1]
Founded in August 1996 by Charles Zhang, Sohu.com pioneered China's internet landscape as one of the earliest online portals.[2] It went public via IPO on the NASDAQ on July 12, 2000, marking a pivotal moment amid the dot-com boom.[1] Over time, its focus evolved from core media portals to diversified operations, incorporating the Sogou search engine acquisition and Changyou's gaming expansion, adapting to mobile shifts and competitive pressures in China's tech ecosystem.[1]
Sohu rides the wave of China's digital entertainment and search resurgence, capitalizing on rising mobile internet penetration and gaming demand in a market dominated by giants like Tencent and Baidu.[1][2] Its timing aligns with post-pandemic shifts toward online content and ads, where media fragmentation favors established portals with loyal communities. Favorable forces include China's expanding middle class and IVAS growth, while Sohu influences the ecosystem by sustaining a competitive alternative in search and gaming, supporting smaller developers via platforms and contributing to NASDAQ-listed Chinese tech diversity.[1][2]
Sohu is poised for continued expansion in gaming and search monetization, potentially leveraging AI enhancements in Sogou and new Changyou titles to capture market share. Trends like mobile-first content, regulatory easing in gaming, and ad recovery will shape its path, evolving its influence from legacy portal to agile digital player. This builds on its strong Q3 momentum, positioning Sohu as a resilient force in China's tech revival.[1]
Sohu.com has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Sohu.com's investors include IDG Capital.
Sohu.com has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $2.0M Series A in March 1998.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1998 | $2.0M Series A | IDG Capital |