GRAB is arming itself for a long fight. The ride-hailing firm won one big battle earlier this year when it pushed US giant Uber out of South-east Asia. Much of its latest US$1 billion funding round will be spent in Indonesia, where the Singapore-based group is up against homegrown rival Go-Jek. That country is where […]
Uber competitor Grab has raised $2.5 billion from Asian tech giants
July 31, 2017 by
Grab, a taxi-hailing service operating in South East Asia, announced on Monday that it has raised $2 billion (£1.5 billion) from Japanese tech investor Softbank and its Chinese equivalent, Didi Chuxing. It expects to raise a further $500 million (£385 million) from other investors before the funding round is closed, bringing the total investment for […]