Yello Mobile Receives $30M Investment from SBI Holdings

yellomobileYello Mobile, a Korean mobile Internet company, received a $30m investment from SBI Holdings (SBIH).

Yello Mobile recently announced a $47m financing round in December 2015, valuing the company at around $4 billion. SBIH’s investment represents a second close of that round. The company expects to raise additional funds prior to the final close of the financing round in the coming months, including funds raised through existing investors like SBI Holdings.

The new funding will support continued investments in Yello Mobile’s core mobile media and platform businesses, accelerate growth in Asia, and strengthen the strategic partnership announced at the end of 2015 between Yello Mobile and SBIH. Under the partnership, the company is leveraging SBIH’s global business network and resources to support its business development efforts in Japan and Southeast Asia, while SBIH is leveraging Yello Mobile’s market position and digital marketing expertise to expand its own business in Korea.

Founded in 2012 by Lee Sang Hyuk, CEO, Yello Mobile operates a large ecosystem of mobile platforms, applications and services spanning online shopping, media content, advertising/digital marketing, and O2O (Online to Offline). The company is primarily known for its mobile platforms Coocha, Korea’s leading shopping search app, and Pikicast, a mobile entertainment and content platform and supports its various user services with other services, including data management and digital marketing.

FinSMEs

17/02/2016

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