New round of financing values company at 40 billion yuan
CMC Inc, a media and entertainment company controlled by mainland media tycoon Li Ruigang, has raised 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) in A-round financing from China Vanke, who co-led this round along with two existing investors – Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group Holding.
The completion of the latest round of financing gives the company a valuation of about 40 billion yuan, CMC said in a statement Tuesday.
Other investors in this funding round included CMB International Capital, the private equity investment arm of Shenzhen-headquartered China Merchants Bank.
China Vanke, which is a new investor in CMC and one of the largest residential property developers in China, did not reveal its investment.
CMC also did not say how it plans to use the new capital.
CMC, which was known as CMC Holdings before a name change, was set up at the end of 2015 by Li, former president of Shanghai Media Group. He is also dubbed China’s Rupert Murdoch, for his vast experience and interests in the media sector.
