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India's Ola Raises $2 Billion From SoftBank, Tencent
- Investment will help bankroll Uber’s fiercest rival in India
- Cash influx is the second-largest in country, after Flipkart’s
Startup Ola Is Uber's Biggest India Rival
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Ola scored $2 billion in new funding from a group of investors including SoftBank Group Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., a person familiar with the matter said, helping bankroll Uber Technologies Inc.’s fiercest rival in India.
Other backers in the ride-hailing startup’s latest financing round included a venture capital fund jointly run by Indian industrialist Ratan Tata and the University of California’s investment arm, as well as several U.S. institutional investors, people familiar with the deal said, asking not to be identified talking about a private deal. The company’s valuation after the financing wasn’t immediately clear.