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Venture Capital: Indian eCommerce Giant Flipkart Raises $3.6B At $37.6B Valuation

Latest News, News, Venture Capital / By Saul Griffith

Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce platform majority-owned by Walmart (NYSE: WMT), announced today (July 12, 2021) its $3.6 billion funding round led by GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Walmart. Sovereign funds DisruptAD, Qatar Investment Authority, Khazanah Nasional also participated in the round alongside big-name investors such as Tencent, Willoughby Capital, Antara Capital, Franklin Templeton, and Tiger Global.

FinTech: Starling Bank Raises £272 Million Series D Funding At £1.1 Billion Pre-Money

FinTech, News / By Saul Griffith

U.K.-based neobank Starling Bank announced on Monday its £272 million ($376 million) Series D funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company, alongside Qatar Investment Authority, RPMI Railpen, the investment manager for the £31 billion Railways Pension Scheme, and the global investment firm Millennium Management.

Takeovers & Buyouts: Tencent-led Consortium Buys 10% of Vivendi-owned Universal Music

Takeovers and Buyouts / By Saul Griffith

Vivendi cashes in on recovery in the music industry with a stake sale.
Universal Music Group (UMG), the biggest music company in the world, has sold a 10% slice worth $ 3.3 billion to a consortium led by Chinese tech and entertainment behemoth Tencent. By January 2021, Tencent can buy 10% more. Tencent will also get to buy a minority stake in UMG China.

Qatar Investment Authority

Venture Capital: Indian eCommerce Giant Flipkart Raises $3.6B At $37.6B Valuation

FinTech: Starling Bank Raises £272 Million Series D Funding At £1.1 Billion Pre-Money

Takeovers & Buyouts: Tencent-led Consortium Buys 10% of Vivendi-owned Universal Music

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