After this round of financing, I know that the whole station Q&A will connect to Baidu App in the form of a smart small program to realize business linkage.
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From the multi-party core sources close to the transaction, it is known that the F-round financing of about 450 million US dollars has been completed. This round of financing is jointly invested by the fast-handed and Baidu, which is the largest round of financing to date.
A person close to the transaction told that Suhua had been known for a long time and had wanted to participate in the previous rounds. However, due to factors such as price, the two sides could not agree. It is reported that the transaction is also controversial in the fast-hand investment department, but the high-level willingness to promote the high-level officials, including Suhua, has finally contributed to this investment.
A person close to Baidu revealed that after this round of financing, the whole station Q&A may access Baidu App in the form of a smart small program to realize business linkage, which will undoubtedly greatly enrich Baidu. The content of the ecology.
It is worth noting that Baidu is also one of the quickest investors. Baidu’s investment is fast, on the surface is enriched Baidu’s content source in the short video ecosystem. Baidu and fast-handed, as well as the just-invested, have formed a “triangular relationship”: Baidu is responsible for platform-based traffic portals and fast-handed short video content ecosystems. .
For the financing, the official confirmation of the knowledge, quick hand, Baidu, and the deadline for publication, all three companies said they would not comment.
This distance is not too long for the last round of financing: In August last year, the exclusive report was made to complete the E round of $270 million financing, with a valuation of $2.5 billion.
At the beginning of this year, a close-knit investor once revealed that he was interested in re-listing in 2019. In the past year, the journey of knowing has been quite ups and downs. According to the “New Beijing News” report, it is known that a large-scale layoffs have been carried out, and the scale has even risen to 700. In response to this, the relevant parties responded that the number and proportion of personnel optimization were within the normal range, and 700 people were extremely exaggerated false news.
Next, the founder and CEO Zhou Yuan issued a full letter, announcing a new round of organizational restructuring, the company also appointed the former honey bud CFO Sun Wei as the new CFO. It is speculated that various measures are directed at preparing for the listing.
The outside world’s discussion about knowing commercialization has not stopped. Although it has only been officially commercialized since 2017, mainly exploring the two major revenue models of advertising and knowledge services, Zhou Yuan revealed that the first half of 2018 knew that commercial advertising revenues increased compared with the same period last year. 340% know that the university has provided more than 15,000 knowledge service products.