Best Online Photos Companies in China
The 89 best Online Photos companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: LiblibAI.
When you're sizing up the best Online Photos companies in China, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum, the numbers tell you exactly where to look. Eighty-nine companies tracked, $452M in total disclosed funding, zero unicorns yet — and that last part is the interesting bit. The global online photos market sat at $105.2B in 2020 and is forecast to reach $149.4B by 2028, compounding at 4.4% annually, driven by smartphone proliferation and rising consumer prosperity. Play Store installs back the story up: median growth across 137 photography apps is running at +11% YoY. The curve's bending upward, and the prize is already enormous.
LiblibAI leads the funding table at $130M, followed by In at $60M, Wuta Camera at $52M, and Faceu at $50M. I find it telling that Matrix Partners China, PurpleSky Capital, and Zhen Fund are all in the mix, because that's serious institutional conviction behind what's still a fragmented field. So where does the real momentum sit? Right now the hot themes clustering around this sector are restaurant rating systems, hospitality standard ratings, and dining feedback, which hints that photo utility is quietly embedding itself into commerce and consumer review infrastructure. The funding spread across these 89 companies signals there's still plenty of territory to claim.
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Ranked: Best Online Photos companies in China
| # | Company | App-install YoY | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camera 360 App Alternate camera app | +37% | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Cutout.Pro AI-based platform offering photo editing platform | +22% | — | — | Unfunded | Yong T Founder | Node.jsZohoGoogle Sign-in+13 | — | — |
| 3 | Artisse Self-image generation app | +19% | $7M | 29 mo ago | Seed | Aditya Nair Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer | Google Sign-inApple Sign-inMUI+18 | — | — |
| 4 | Fotor Photo Editing App With A Social Networking Element | +18% | $8M | 105 mo ago | Series B | Tony Duan Founder & CEO | Node.jsGoogle Sign-inReact+24 | — | — |
| 5 | Wuta Camera Photo editing platform for skin makeup | +6% | $52M | 89 mo ago | Series B | Wu Hao CEO | BootstrapTengineAlibaba Cloud Object Storage Service+2 | — | — |
| 6 | 9GAG Image and video sharing social platform | +3% | $4M | 133 mo ago | Seed | Ray Chan Co-Founder & CEO | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceFirebase+35 | — | — |
| 7 | Ufoto Mobile apps for camera and photo editing | +3% | $2M | 123 mo ago | Acquired | Chen Ji Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Camera360 Developer of camera and photo editing apps | +2% | $23M | 153 mo ago | Series B | — | Node.jsAnimate.cssVue.js+6 | — | — |
| 9 | LiblibAI Platform for AI drawing and model sharing | — | $130M | 8 mo ago | Series B | Chen Mian Founder | TypeScriptNode.jsMantine+10 | — | — |
| 10 | Qbb6.com App-based platform for sharing photos of children | — | $44M | 65 mo ago | Series D | Pei Hua Feng Founder | — | — | — |
| 11 | In Social photo sharing app | — | $60M | 132 mo ago | Series B | Xie Xu Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 12 | Faceu App-based photo editing platform | — | $50M | 103 mo ago | Acquired | Guo Lie CEO | — | — | — |
| 13 | Appmagics App to create funny photos | — | $14M | 84 mo ago | Series B | Jin Yulin Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 14 | Meike365 Marketplace platform for photography services | — | $20M | 130 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Shanghai Rushu Culture Communication Movie style photo story telling social app | — | $10M | 130 mo ago | Series A | Laputan Young Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 16 | Flash Meng Search engine for GIFs | — | $10M | 103 mo ago | Series B | Chen Li Founder | Node.jsVue.jsNuxt.js+5 | — | — |
| 17 | Plus Online marketplace for photographers | — | $5M | 101 mo ago | Series B | — | — | 5 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 18 | Photoplus Image search, sharing and recognition platform | — | $3M | 116 mo ago | Deadpooled | Xu An Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 19 | Aiyaopai Online photographer marketplace in China | — | $2M | 90 mo ago | Seed | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Woyaoxunpai On demand wedding photography services | — | $2M | 127 mo ago | Deadpooled | Sun Peng CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | PxBee Online platform for stock photos | — | $1M | 79 mo ago | Seed | Tony Duan Founder & CEO | Node.jsReactNext.js+10 | — | — |
| 22 | Groove Factory Photo sharing social application | — | $2M | 140 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tang Yiqing Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 23 | Ichuye Photo sharing app | — | $2M | 130 mo ago | Deadpooled | Steve Wolf Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 24 | Tuding Mobile camera app for image capture | — | $2M | 174 mo ago | Deadpooled | Lin Quan CEO | — | — | — |
| 25 | Zhitu Photo capture and editing app for display in a 3D way | — | $158K | 149 mo ago | Deadpooled | Hao Huang Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 26 | Duqi.com Photo micro blogging service | — | $100K | 197 mo ago | Deadpooled | Claude Ritter Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Online Photos companies in China
#1
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2023$130Mraised▾
Platform for AI drawing and model sharing. It is an AI-based platform providing creative tools and resources for artists, designers, and developers. The platform offers a shared library of AI-generated models, online AI painting tools, and a training model for users to explore and utilize AI art.
- Oct 2025Series B$130M
- Feb 2025Series A—
- Jul 2024Seed—
#2
Seed · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2021$6.7Mraised▾
Self-image generation app. It generates AI photos using written prompts.
- Jan 2024Seed$6.7M
#3
Series D · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2013 · 500 employees$44.4Mraised▾
App-based platform for sharing photos of children. The app allows users to create a timeline on the platform to capture memories of their children. Users can upload photos, share memories and chat privately with their family members. Parents can also share their experiences and tips on parenting. It also offers a tool to monitor a baby's growth, height, and weight curve, vaccination reminders, etc.
- Jan 2021Series D$38.6M
- Oct 2018Series C—
- Dec 2016Series B—
- Jun 2014Series A$813.4K
#4
Series B · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2013 · 128 employees$60Mraised▾
IN is a social photo sharing platform and an Instagram clone of China. Allows a user to share pics of epic moments in life, with millions of people alike. Can edit all photos with professional filters, customizable tags, adorable stickers.
- Jun 2015Series B$48.4M
- Aug 2014Series A$10M
- Nov 2013Seed$1.6M
#5
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015$51.8Mraised▾
WutaCam is a photo editing platform for skin makeup. Users can add the photos from the devices and edit them using skin smoothening effects. It provides the beauty enhancement features including coin eye, high nose, slap face, white teeth, eyeliner, eyebrows, eyelashes, lipstick, blush, etc. It allows users to add the stickers, text & date watermark, facial makeup effects, beauty effects to the photos. Available for Windows and Android devices.
- Jan 2019Series B$51.8M
#6
Acquired · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2015$50Mraised▾
App-based photo editing platform. The platform allows users to add filters to photos and share them with friends and family. The app is available for Android and iOS users.
- Oct 2017Series C$50M
#7
Series B · Chengdu, Sichuan Sheng · founded 2010 · 130 employees$23Mraised▾
Developer of camera and photo editing apps. Its app portfolio includes selfie cameras with multiple shooting modes, and photo editing features such as skin beautifiers, portrait filters, and animated stickers. It also includes photo collage makers, image editors, and beauty cameras.
- Aug 2013Series B$18M
- May 2012Series A$5M
#8
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013$14.4Mraised▾
Appmagics, parent company of Facemagic app is a mobile app studio creating social apps. Its app face magic app lets users click pictures and edit photos and videos by applying funny themes and stickers. Claims that they use some VR and image processing techniques to change moods of users on the app. Lets users share the created pictures and videos in their social circles.
- 2019Series B$14.4M
- Mar 2018Series A—
- Jun 2017Series A—
- Sep 2016Series A—
#9
Deadpooled · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2014 · 36 employees$20Mraised▾
Meike365 (My Moments) is a platform that connects parents who want to get portfolios of their kids clicked with photographers. Using the platform, one can book appointments with photographers. The developed albums are delivered to users
- Aug 2015Series A$20M
- Mar 2015Seed—
#10
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014 · 8 employees$10.3Mraised▾
FotoPlace is a photo-sharing social app through which users can shoot Hollywood-movie-style photos, and record their life in the form of movie screencaps and subtitles. They can also discover the movies filmed around the local positions and historic events taken place nearby. Moreover, FotoPlace contains filming locations of classic movies with specified longitude and latitude for the users to shoot at these places.
- Jul 2015Series A$10M
- Aug 2014Seed$322K
#11
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015$10Mraised▾
Flash Meng is a Chinese search engine for GIFs and animations. and distribution platform. Also has communication tools and an app is available for the same.
- Nov 2017Series B$10M
#12
Series B · Chengdu, Sichuan Sheng · founded 2009 · 14 employees$7.6Mraised▾
Fotor Photo Editor is a free online designer and editing tool catering to all photographic and image creation needs. Users can add filters, frames, text, stickers and effects; create a photo collage, card, facebook cover, twitter cover, youtube channel art or design graphics with Fotor free online photo editor.
- Aug 2017Series B$7.6M
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