Ola Raises $50 Million to Compete With Uber in International Market
India's leading taxi aggregator Ola raises $50 million from Hong Kong-based Sailing Capital and the China-Eurasian Economic Cooperation Fund (CEECF).
The SoftBank-backed company looking to battle against Uber in markets like India, the UK, and others.
The latest funding round will make Ola's valuation around USD 3.7 billion and USD 4 billion.
Ola, in an extraordinary general meeting held on August 31, 2018, approved the proposal to raise this amount through the issuance of 2,50,000 fully and compulsorily convertible preference shares, according to regulatory documents filed by Ola with the ministry of corporate affairs.
Sailing and CEECF (state-backed investment fund of China) will together hold more than one per cent stake in Ola (run by ANI Technologies), it added.
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