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SoftBank-backed Grab seeks another $2 billion funding in expansion drive

The Singapore-headquartered firm, like its regional rival Go-Jek, has been raising billions of dollars to bring ride-hailing, food delivery, e-commerce and banking to a populous region with a growing number of consumers that use smartphones to commute, shop and make payments.

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SoftBank-backed Grab seeks another $2 billion funding in expansion drive
SoftBank is very happy with Grab and that SoftBank will provide unlimited support to power our growth, Photo: Reuters
Written By: Reuters
Updated: Mon, Apr 08, 2019
07:23 pm
SINGAPORE, Reuters
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Grab is looking to raise another $2 billion this year to ramp up expansion, its CEO Anthony Tan told Reuters, just weeks after announcing over $4.5 billion of funding in what has become Southeast Asia`s largest round of private financing. The mega funding comes as Grab rolls out an aggressive strategy to expand its bouquet of services, from transport to food delivery and payments, as it races Indonesia`s Go-Jek to become an app-for-everything in Southeast Asia, home to about 650 million people. Grab, which is backed by Japan`s SoftBank, expects to invest a significant portion of the funds in Indonesia, it said in a statement later. Reuters reported the funding target earlier on Monday.

"We basically received a very strong vote of confidence. And Masa shared that SoftBank is very happy with Grab and that SoftBank will provide unlimited support to power our growth," Tan said, referring to SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son.
SoftBank did not respond to a request for comment.

Funding, to be raised from strategic investors, including SoftBank, will be a mix of debt and equity, Tan said. Grab`s ongoing massive financing round started soon after it bought the Southeast Asian operations of U.S. peer Uber in March last year. The Singapore-headquartered firm, like its regional rival Go-Jek, has been raising billions of dollars to bring ride-hailing, food delivery, e-commerce and banking to a populous region with a growing number of consumers that use smartphones to commute, shop and make payments.

Both firms started out in ride-hailing and have since amassed millions of users with cut-rate prices. 

Backers for Go-Jek include Temasek Holdings, Tencent and Alphabet Inc`s Google. Grab counts Toyota, Microsoft, China`s Didi Chuxing and Hyundai among its backers. People with direct knowledge of the matter said Grab has raised about $8 billion since its launch almost 7 years ago. Last month, Grab`s president Ming Maa, a former SoftBank executive, said the ride-hailing firm was considering raising more funds in its ongoing financing round, in which the SoftBank Vision Fund has invested $1.5 billion.

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Tan said: "With the amount of funding we have raised, and the support from strategic investors like SoftBank, we are so well-funded to execute on our expansion and investment plans, so there is really no need to IPO." 

Grab wants to make at least six investments or acquisitions this year, and plans to add 1,000 tech staff globally, Tan said. In Singapore, it will double staff to 3,000 when its $134-million headquarters is complete by end-2020. SoftBank`s support will help Grab "grow very aggressively this year across our verticals - transport, mobility, food and payments", Tan told Reuters in an interview.

 

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