Recent multi-billion dollar funding announcements of Uber, followed by an even bigger round of Didi Chuxing, has put all the rumours about funding winter to rest. 2016 seems to be carrying the momentum which 2015 had; we have already seen some huge rounds of funding in 2016. Here is a list of 50 biggest rounds of funding of the year so far.
Company Name | Round | Funding in the Round | Date of Announcement | Participating Investors of the Round |
Didi Chuxing | Series F | $4.5B | 6/15/2016 | Apple, China Life Insurance, Ant Group, Tencent, Alibaba Group, China Merchants Bank, SoftBank |
Ant Group | Series B | $4.5B | 4/26/2016 | China Investment Corporation, CCB trust, China Life Insurance, China Post Group Corp., CDB Capital, Primavera Capital |
Suning Commerce Group | PE | $4.28B | 6/2/2016 | Alibaba |
Uber | PE | $3.5B | 6/1/2016 | Public Investment Fund |
Meituan | Series E | $3.3B | 1/19/2016 | Tencent, DST Global, Capital Today Group, Temasek Holdings, Baillie Gifford, CPP Investment Board, CDB Capital |
Snapchat | Series F | $1.8B | 5/26/2016 | Fidelity Investments, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, Coatue, Institutional Venture Partners, Lone Pine Capital, Glade Brook Capital, T. Rowe Price, Alibaba Group, Yahoo, KPCB, Benchmark, General Catalyst Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
Ele.me | PE | $1.25B | 4/13/2016 | Alibaba Group |
Lufax | Series B | $1.22B | 1/18/2016 | Bank of China Group Investment, China Minsheng Bank, Guotai Junan Securities, CDH Investments, CICC, BlackPine Private Equity Partners |
Le Sports | Series B | $1.2B | 3/29/2016 | HNA Group |
Targa Resources | PE | $1B | 3/16/2016 | Energy Capital Partners, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone |
Lyft | Series F | $1B | 1/4/2016 | Kingdom, General Motors |
Spotify | Convertible Debt | $1B | 3/29/2016 | TPG Global |
JD Finance | Series A | $1B | 1/16/2016 | Ample Harvest Capital, Sequoia Capital, China Taiping Insurance Group |
Lianjia | Series B | $926M | 4/6/2016 | Tencent, Baidu |
Magic Leap | Series C | $793.5M | 2/2/2016 | Alibaba Group, Google, Qualcomm Ventures, Warner Bros, Fidelity Investments, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wellington Management Company |
Home Partners | Series B | $767.6M | 5/23/2016 | Undisclosed |
Shenzhou Car | Series C | $569M | 3/24/2016 | Undisclosed |
Metro Bank | Unattributed | $564M | 3/4/2016 | Undisclosed |
Ascent Resources | Unattributed | $500M | 3/10/2016 | Undisclosed |
Lazada | Series F | $500M | 4/12/2016 | Alibaba Group |
Tri Alpha Energy | Series E | $500M | 5/21/2016 | Goldman Sachs |
Symantec | PE | $500M | 2/5/2016 | Silver Lake |
Sage Midstream | PE | $500M | 4/18/2016 | Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners |
Ping An Good Doctor | Series A | $500M | 5/16/2016 | Undisclosed |
Wepiao | Series D | $462M | 4/27/2016 | Tencent, iDreamSky |
WeBank | Unattributed | $450M | 1/28/2016 | Warburg Pincus, Temasek |
WeWork | Series F | $430M | 3/9/2016 | Hony Capital, Legend Holdings |
Oscar | Series C | $400M | 2/22/2016 | Fidelity Investments, Google Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Founders Fund, Lakestar, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, Ping An Ventures |
Relativity Media | Unattributed | $400M | 3/16/2016 | Undisclosed |
21vianet | PE | $388M | 5/23/2016 | Tuspark Ventures |
Jiedaibao | Series B | $380M | 1/26/2016 | Undisclosed |
Rice Midstream | Series B | $375M | 2/22/2016 | EIGPartners |
Indigo Minerals | Unattributed | $375M | 4/28/2016 | Trilantic Capital Partners, Ridgemont Equity Partners |
QuEST Global | PE | $350M | 2/19/2016 | Bain Capital, GIC, Advent International |
Lucid Energy | PE | $350M | 2/23/2016 | EnCap Flatrock Midstream |
Global Fashion Group | Unattributed | $338.5M | 4/27/2016 | Rocket Internet, Kinnevik AB |
Banijay | PE | $321M | 2/23/2016 | Vivendi |
Huimaiche | PE | $300M | 6/1/2016 | Tencent, Jingdong |
Sunnova | Series F | $300M | 5/2/2016 | Energy Capital Partners, Triangle Peak Partners, Franklin Square |
Mofang Gongyu | Series C | $300M | 4/12/2016 | Warburg Pincus, Avic Capital |
Gett | Series E | $300M | 5/24/2016 | Volkswagen Group |
DadaApp | Series D | $300M | 1/4/2016 | Sequoia Capital, DST Global |
Novavax | Convertible Debt | $300M | 1/29/2016 | Undisclosed |
Tall City Exploration II | PE | $300M | 5/24/2016 | Denham Capital Management |
Souq | Series D | $275M | 2/29/2016 | Tiger Global Management, Naspers, IFC |
Taobao movie | Series A | $269M | 5/15/2016 | CDH Investments, Ant Group, Huace Media, Sina |
Pivotal Software | Series C | $253M | 5/5/2016 | Ford, Microsoft, GE, EMC, VMware |
Groupon | Unattributed | $250M | 4/4/2016 | Atairos |
IMG | Unattributed | $250M | 4/20/2016 | SoftBank |
Ibibo Group | Series C | $250M | 2/24/2016 | Naspers |