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GOQii raises $13.4 million in Series A round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates and Cheetah Mobile
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GOQii raises $13.4 million in Series A round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates and Cheetah Mobile

Fitness tracker startup GOQii has raised Series A funding worth $13.2 million (Rs 88 crore) led by New Enterprise Associates and Cheetah Mobile, with participation from Great Wall Club, DSG Consumer Partners, Ilkka Paananen (CEO and co-founder of Supercell) and Pravin Gandhi (co-founder of Seedfund) reports Mint.   GOQii will use the funds to expand to China and other unnamed markets, and is working on Chinese content before launching it there. The report adds that Cheetah Mobile’s investment may help in GOQii’s China expansion as well as on Xiaomi’s Mi user interface, given Cheetah Mobile’s chairman Jun Lei is the founder of Xiaomi. (more…)