Zhihu, a high-quality Q&A community on the Internet in China, is an original content platform gathered by creators. It was officially launched on 2011,with the brand mission of "let people better share their knowledge, experience and opinions and find their own answers".

With a serious, professional and friendly community atmosphere, unique product mechanism and structured and accessible high-quality content, Zhihu has gathered the most creative people in the fields of Internet technology, commerce, film and television, fashion and culture in China, and has become an all-round, all-category, multi-field knowledge-sharing community with key influence and an original content platform gathered by creators, and established a community-driven content realization business model.

Development history

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

20 1 1 In March, Zhihu received an angel round investment from Kai-fu Lee, followed by a series of investments from Qi Ming10 million dollars.

20 13 March, Zhihu was registered to the outside world. In less than a year, the number of registered users has rapidly climbed 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.