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China's Didi Kuaidi firms up anti-Uber alliance with Ola investment

09/29/2015| 10:39:24 AM|

China's Didi Kuaidi said on Monday it has invested in Indian peer Ola, forging a new alliance challenging U.S. rival Uber Technologies Inc.

China's most popular ride-hailing app Didi Kuaidi said on Monday it has invested in Indian peer Ola, forging a new alliance within a network of companies challenging U.S. rival Uber Technologies Inc.

India's taxi app giant Ola joins the Didi Kuaidi camp 

Didi Kuaidi joins existing investors including SoftBank Corp, Falcon Edge, Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and Tiger Global Management. A spokesman for Didi Kuaidi declined to specify the size of the investment.

SoftBank is the common investor backing most of the firms that are taking on Uber across Asia and in the United States. The Japanese telecoms conglomerate already had stakes in Didi Kuaidi, Ola and Southeast Asian firm GrabTaxi.

Didi Kuaidi has also invested in Uber's U.S. rival Lyft, which shares common investors with the other companies, including Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

Ola controls 80 percent of India's taxi-hailing business, and completes more than 750,000 rides per day, according to Monday's statement. Last month, Uber said it plans to average more than 1 million rides a day in India over the next six to nine months as it steps up investments to take on Ola.

In August, GrabTaxi said it had also raised money from Didi Kuaidi, which recently conducted a $3-billion fundraising round.

Uber and its biggest rival Didi Kuaidi are locked in a subsidy-intensive fight for market share in China, one that is costing them each hundreds of millions of dollars.

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