OYO gets $10-million funding from Chinese firm

Startups in India fetch investments from China

Hotel aggregator OYO raises an additional $10-million in funding from Chinese hotel management firm China Lodging Group. This comes less than a week after OYO announced a $250-million funding round. This report came from the company’s headquarter at Gurgaon.

Let’s take a quick look at the salient features from the deal:

• The Shanghai-headquartered Chinese company has a current market capitalisation of $6.88 billion
• It has invested as part of OYO’s D series financing round, led by OYO’s existing backer SoftBank through its $100-billion Vision Fund
• Though the exact amount was not disclosed, it is believed to have invested at the same valuation of $850-900 million as SoftBank
• China Lodging Group, also called Huazhu Hotels is a multi-brand hotel group
• As on June 30th this year, the company has a total no. of 612 hotels

With Chinese investors setting their foot in the Indian soil, do you think it would be beneficial for the startups based out of India?

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