TikTok

TikTok Inc. is a privately held corporation, and California does not require private companies to file a public shareholder register. No shareholder list for this entity is available from the California Secretary of State or from the other primary sources reviewed for this profile.

Extensive public reporting exists about the ownership of TikTok’s wider United States business, as distinct from TikTok Inc.’s own shareholder register. On January 22, 2026, ByteDance Ltd and a group of new investors closed a transaction creating TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC to hold TikTok’s US operations. According to TikTok’s official announcement of that transaction, the joint venture is held as follows: Oracle Corporation, Silver Lake and MGX Fund Management each hold 15% as managing investors; a wider group of existing ByteDance investors holds approximately 30.1%; and ByteDance Ltd retains approximately 19.9%, a level set below the 20% threshold that US law applies to a foreign adversary controlled holding. These percentages, current as of the January 22, 2026 closing, describe ownership of the new joint venture that now holds TikTok’s US business; no primary source identified for this profile confirms that they represent TikTok Inc.’s own direct shareholder register.

Because a verified ownership chain specific to TikTok Inc. is not available, no ultimate beneficial owner is reported for this entity.

Data availability: Not public for TikTok Inc.’s own shareholder register, since California does not publish shareholder information for private corporations. Ownership of TikTok’s wider US business is well documented in TikTok’s own announcements and in extensive independent reporting as of January 2026.

California requires corporations to file a Statement of Information disclosing a chief executive officer, a secretary and, where applicable, a chief financial officer and directors, and to update this filing periodically. The officer record on this company’s profile card lists one individual with the internal job title “User Safety – Data Analyst,” which describes an operational role rather than one of the corporate offices, such as President, Secretary or Chief Financial Officer, that a California Statement of Information is designed to capture.

During research for this profile, a primary, reliably current source confirming the complete list of officers and directors that TikTok Inc. has on file with the California Secretary of State could not be identified, and the secondary sources reviewed gave inconsistent officer names for the entity. For this reason, no specific individual is named here as a current officer of TikTok Inc.

Data availability: Partial. California confirms that a Statement of Information has been filed for the entity, but the full, current filed detail was not independently verified through the sources reviewed for this profile. Officer information for TikTok Inc. should be confirmed directly through the California Secretary of State’s bizfile portal.

TikTok Inc.’s own California registry filings do not disclose a parent company or corporate group. For a number of years before 2026, TikTok’s US operations were widely and consistently reported, including in US congressional proceedings and in ByteDance’s own public statements, to form part of the ByteDance Ltd corporate group, a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

This position changed materially on January 22, 2026, when ByteDance and a consortium of new investors closed a transaction establishing TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, a new US entity created to hold and operate TikTok’s US app, recommendation algorithm and US user data, alongside the US operations of CapCut and Lemon8. The transaction was required to bring TikTok’s US business into compliance with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. No primary source identified for this profile specifically confirms TikTok Inc.’s own position within this new structure, for example whether TikTok Inc. itself became a direct subsidiary of the joint venture or whether the relevant US assets were reorganized through other entities. The relationship between TikTok Inc. and TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is therefore reported here as an affiliate relationship rather than a verified parent-subsidiary link.

Data availability: Partial. TikTok Inc.’s own filed California registry information does not show corporate linkages. The wider corporate history of TikTok’s US business, including the January 2026 joint-venture restructuring, is well documented in primary company announcements and extensive independent reporting, but TikTok Inc.’s exact position within the post-restructuring group has not been independently confirmed from a primary source for this profile.