When was Zhihu founded?

Zhihu is an online Q&A community, connecting users from all walks of life. Users share each other's knowledge, experience and opinions, and provide various information for the Chinese Internet. For the conceptual explanation, the online encyclopedia covers almost all your questions. But the integration of divergent thinking is a major feature of Zhihu.

Zhihu, 2017165438+18 October, was selected as the business case of Top 30 China Influential Times. 20 19 10 2 1, hurun research institute released hurun global unicorn list 20 19, and Zhihu ranked 138. On March 2, 20 18, Beijing Internet Information Office issued an urgent notice, claiming that the "Zhihu" platform was poorly managed and spread illegal information. According to relevant laws and regulations, all app stores are required to remove the "Zhihu" app for seven days. On June 6th, the original "knowledge market" business was upgraded to "Zhihu University". In July, Zhihu completed a new round of financing, with a financing amount of nearly $300 million. On August 2, 20 19, Zhihu announced the completion of the F round of financing, with a total amount of USD 434 million. On June+10, 5438, the live broadcast function of Zhihu was officially launched. On the afternoon of 165438+ 10/9, "Zhihu Encyclopedia" officially launched its editing plan, inviting users to participate in the content creation of the encyclopedia and further improving the structured content display mechanism.

Zhihu, with a market value of 20 billion yuan in August 2020, ranks 108 in the Hurun Global Unicorn List of Suzhou High-tech Zone in 2020.

Development history

20 10 12, Zhihu website opened. Zhihu used to be invited to register.

20 1 1 In March, Zhihu was invested by Kai-fu Lee's Angel Wheel, and then by Qi Ming's A-round investment of one million dollars;

20 13 March, Zhihu was registered to the outside world. In less than a year, the number of registered users rose rapidly from 400,000 to 4 million.

2065438+In June 2004, Zhihu completed the $22 million Series B financing led by Softbank Fortune.

2015165438+18 October, the financing in the C round was 55 million USD. The new investors are Tencent and sogou, with Tencent leading the investment. Previous investors Safran, Qi Ming Venture Capital and innovation works also followed suit in this round of investment.

2065438+June 2, 2007 65438+2007 1 October 65438+2007, Zhihu announced the completion of the1billion series D financing. Today, Capital is the investor, and its original directors and shareholders include Tencent, sogou, Safran, Qi Ming and innovation works. [1 1] According to Kai-Fu Lee of innovation works, after the completion of this round of financing, Zhihu's valuation exceeded $65.438 billion, and it became a unicorn.

2065438+On April 26th, 2008, Zhihu announced to upgrade the protection of users' rights and interests. For third-party organizations other than trusted search engines, we will adopt the way of white list permission to standardize the usage standards of Zhihu content.

On June 6th, 20 18, Zhihu officially announced that the original "knowledge market" business was upgraded to "Zhihu University" and a new knowledge market division was established. Previously, Zhihu Books and Know Live were handled by different teams. After the establishment of the new business department, the original knowledge service team will be put together for operation.

2065438+On July 9, 2008, Zhihu * * * completed five rounds of financing, with a total financing amount approaching US$ 65438+800 million.

From July 2065438 to July 2008, Zhihu completed a new round of financing, with the financing amount approaching USD 300 million and the current round of valuation approaching USD 2.5 billion.

2065438+In March 2009, Zhihu officially announced the launch of a brand-new membership service system-Salt Elected Members.

On August 2, 20 19, Zhihu announced the completion of the F round of financing, with a total amount of USD 434 million. This round of financing was led by A Auto Fast, and Baidu followed suit. Tencent and the original investors of Today Capital continued to follow up, and Aauto Quicker and Baidu became strategic investors of Zhihu for the first time. Huaxing Capital is the exclusive financial advisor for this round of financing.

20 19 10, Zhihu live broadcast function was officially launched. In the live broadcast scene, users can share knowledge, experience and opinions more easily and directly, conduct real-time discussions and exchanges, and get professional answers from the anchor.

On September 8, 2020, Wu Bai, the godfather of Chinese rock, settled in Zhihu and made his first live broadcast appearance.

On September 28th, 2020, Zhihu and Tencent announced the joint launch of a community purification plan to jointly crack down on illegal network production through illegal information management and technology sharing.