Saihu

Name

Saihu

Website

https://saihu.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Saihu is a privately held C2C skill and knowledge consulting platform founded in 2015, based in Xiamen, China, with 1–10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Xiamen

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Saihu is a consumer-to-consumer (C2C) skill and knowledge consulting platform that enables individuals to offer and access expertise across various domains in a peer-to-peer consulting environment. The platform connects individual experts with consumers seeking advisory services, facilitating transactions of knowledge and skill-based consulting between users.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Wyzant: US-based tutoring and instructor marketplace connecting learners with vetted experts. Directly comparable as a C2C skill/knowledge platform with similar supply-side recruitment and matching challenges.
• Preply: Two-sided marketplace for expert-led tutoring and lessons. Demonstrates the same C2C skill/knowledge marketplace model Saihu describes, with stronger liquidity and clearer unit economics.
• Zhihu (知乎): China's largest paid knowledge-sharing and Q&A platform, connecting individual experts with paying users. Operates in the same C2C knowledge-consultation category Saihu targets, with a far larger user base and capital base.
• Zhubajie (猪八戒): China's leading C2C services and freelance marketplace, matching individual service providers (design, consulting, IT, knowledge work) with buyers. Directly comparable business model to Saihu's stated C2C skill/knowledge platform.
• Clarity.fm: On-demand marketplace for paid expert consultations by phone or video. Closest international analogue to a C2C skill/knowledge consulting marketplace, with similar take-rate economics and expert-supply dynamics.
• Fiverr: Global freelance services marketplace where individual providers sell knowledge and skill-based services. Comparable C2C marketplace mechanics with broader scope than Saihu but directly overlapping in the consulting/skills category.
• Maven: Cohort-based learning marketplace where vetted experts run paid courses and consultations. Comparable as a curated C2C knowledge-consultation platform with structured offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Udemy: Global C2C marketplace for expert-authored courses and learning. Competes for the same 'individuals monetizing knowledge' supply pool that Saihu's C2C consulting model depends on.
• Upwork: Largest global freelance and consulting marketplace. Operates at much greater scale and category breadth than Saihu but is directly comparable as a C2C platform for paid knowledge and consulting services.
• Quora: Large-scale knowledge Q&A platform that has expanded into paid expert content and Spaces. Overlaps with Saihu's knowledge-consultation positioning and dwarfs it in traffic and brand.

Market position

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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