NEW DELHI: Tencent<\/a> Holdings, the world’s fifth-largest Internet<\/a> company and the operator of the WeChat messaging platform, is actively scouring for early-stage bets in India, as the social media giant looks to transport its hugely successful strategy from China. 腾讯将大型战略继续押注成熟的印度企业看起来捡重要的市场领导者的少数股权,知情人士透露,该公司计划的人士表示。 新德里消息:腾讯控股公司,全球第五大互联网公司和运营商的微信消息传递平台,积极寻找早期在印度投资,随着社交媒体巨头似乎从中国运输其巨大的成功战略。
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\nThe Shenzhen-headquartered company has held preliminary discussions with two startups — social networking platform ShareChat and consumer lending venture Kissht — according to people with knowledge of the talks. There is no certainty that the talks will indeed translate into investments.
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Tencent’s new focus on relatively young ventures marks a diversification of its strategy in India. Till date, the company, which had a market capitalisation of $496.25 billion as of Wednesday, has primarily made latestage investments in India in companies such as Flipkart, Ola and Practo. ShareChat, which counts smartphone maker Xiaomi<\/a> and Chinese venture capital<\/a> firm ShunWei Capital as investors, was founded in 2015. Kissht, founded a year later, counts Fosun RZ Capital as an investor.
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\nDiversification Move<\/strong>
It is unclear if Tencent will invest from its balance sheet<\/a> or route the funds through one of its subsidiaries, a list that includes Tencent Industry Win-Win Fund, Tencent Public Space and Tencent Industry Collaboration Fund.
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\nEmails sent to Tencent, Kissht and ShareChat did not elicit any response till the time of going to press.
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\n“Tencent could invest between $5 million and $15 million across segments including, gaming, content, social media and consumer lending,” one of the people cited above said on condition of anonymity.
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\nThe company has a strong investment record in all these segments, having backed Ubisoft in the gaming space and German online bank N26 last month.
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\nTencent will continue to place large strategic bets on mature Indian ventures as it looks to pick up significant minority stakes in market leaders, people familiar with the company’s plans told ET.
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\n“It’s more of a diversification of (Tencent’s) investment strategy. They have done that very well, particularly in China, and are looking to repeat that in India,” one of them said.
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Of Tencent’s 70 disclosed investments in 2017, 36% were in earlystage ventures and 23% towards late-stage ventures, show data sourced from Crunchbase. Seed-stage funding made up about 3% of the known funding total. Tencent, its Chinese rival Alibaba Group<\/a>, and Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp have become increasingly aggressive in India the past 12 months, picking up stakes in some of the country’s most richly valued companies and driving up valuations to stratospheric levels in the process.
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腾讯寻找早期创业投资,可能5 - 15百万美元投资
Shenzhen-headquartered公司举行了初步讨论两个初创公司——社交网络平台ShareChat和消费信贷风险Kissht——据知情人士会谈。没有确定会谈确实会转化为投资。
腾讯的新关注相对年轻的企业标志着多样化的策略在印度。至今为止,公司,周三的市值为4962.5亿美元,主要在印度投资latestage Flipkart公司等公司,Ola和Practo。ShareChat,智能手机制造商小米和中国风险资本公司ShunWei资本投资者,成立于2015年。Kissht,成立一年后,计数复星RZ资本作为一个投资者。
多元化举措
目前还不清楚如果腾讯将从它的投资资产负债表或路由基金通过它的一个子公司,一个列表,其中包括腾讯产业共赢基金,腾讯公共空间和腾讯产业合作基金。
邮件发送到腾讯,Kissht ShareChat并没有引起任何反应,直到将新闻的时间。
“腾讯投资500万美元和1500万美元之间跨段,包括游戏,内容、社交媒体和消费者贷款,”上面所提到的一个人不愿透露姓名的说。
公司拥有一支强劲的投资记录,在所有这些领域,有支持育碧游戏空间和德国网上银行上个月N26。
腾讯将大型战略继续押注成熟的印度企业看起来捡重要的市场领导者的少数股权,知情人士透露,该公司计划的人士告诉等。
“这更多元化的投资策略(腾讯)。他们做得很好,尤其是在中国,和印度正在重复,”其中一个说。
腾讯70年披露的投资在2017年,36%的人在earlystage对后期投资企业和23%,显示数据来自Crunchbase实际上。种子期融资由已知的资金总量的约3%。腾讯,其中国竞争对手阿里巴巴集团,和日本的软银集团越来越积极的在印度过去12个月中,加快股权估值最高的一些国家的企业和推高估值到极高的水平。
NEW DELHI: Tencent<\/a> Holdings, the world’s fifth-largest Internet<\/a> company and the operator of the WeChat messaging platform, is actively scouring for early-stage bets in India, as the social media giant looks to transport its hugely successful strategy from China.
\n
\nThe Shenzhen-headquartered company has held preliminary discussions with two startups — social networking platform ShareChat and consumer lending venture Kissht — according to people with knowledge of the talks. There is no certainty that the talks will indeed translate into investments.
\n
Tencent’s new focus on relatively young ventures marks a diversification of its strategy in India. Till date, the company, which had a market capitalisation of $496.25 billion as of Wednesday, has primarily made latestage investments in India in companies such as Flipkart, Ola and Practo. ShareChat, which counts smartphone maker Xiaomi<\/a> and Chinese venture capital<\/a> firm ShunWei Capital as investors, was founded in 2015. Kissht, founded a year later, counts Fosun RZ Capital as an investor.
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\nDiversification Move<\/strong>
It is unclear if Tencent will invest from its balance sheet<\/a> or route the funds through one of its subsidiaries, a list that includes Tencent Industry Win-Win Fund, Tencent Public Space and Tencent Industry Collaboration Fund.
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\nEmails sent to Tencent, Kissht and ShareChat did not elicit any response till the time of going to press.
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\n“Tencent could invest between $5 million and $15 million across segments including, gaming, content, social media and consumer lending,” one of the people cited above said on condition of anonymity.
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\nThe company has a strong investment record in all these segments, having backed Ubisoft in the gaming space and German online bank N26 last month.
\n
\nTencent will continue to place large strategic bets on mature Indian ventures as it looks to pick up significant minority stakes in market leaders, people familiar with the company’s plans told ET.
\n
\n“It’s more of a diversification of (Tencent’s) investment strategy. They have done that very well, particularly in China, and are looking to repeat that in India,” one of them said.
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Of Tencent’s 70 disclosed investments in 2017, 36% were in earlystage ventures and 23% towards late-stage ventures, show data sourced from Crunchbase. Seed-stage funding made up about 3% of the known funding total. Tencent, its Chinese rival Alibaba Group<\/a>, and Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp have become increasingly aggressive in India the past 12 months, picking up stakes in some of the country’s most richly valued companies and driving up valuations to stratospheric levels in the process.
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