In a staggering one-two on Friday, Jio continued to raise big-ticket investments, one from Silver Lake, which has contributed Rs 10,202.55 crore (more than half of which it announced earlier); and another Rs 9093.60 crore from Mubadala, a state-owned investment fund in Abu Dhabi. Mubadala and Silver Lake's investments will give them a 1.85% and 2.08% stake in Jio Platforms respectively. These investments mark an eventful six weeks for Jio Platforms, which has now raised Rs 92,202.15 crore (around US$12.2 billion) from investors, starting with Facebook, which chipped in Rs 43,574 crore (US$5.7 billion) for a 9.9% stake. New York based investment firm KKR & Co. Inc. announced a ₹11,367 crore (~$1.5 billion) investment in Jio Platforms, the holding company for Reliance Jio, on May 21. Before this, General Atlantic announced on May 18 that it would invest ₹6,598.38 crore (~$870 million) in Jio Platforms, which also includes Reliance’s other digital ventures. On May 8, Jio Platforms announced a ₹11,367 crore (~US$1.5 billion) investment from Vista Equity Partners. Silver Lake has invested in companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, Ant Financial, Alphabet’s Verily and Waymo units, Dell Technologies, and Twitter. Mubadala manages US$229 billion in funds, mainly in the aerospace and oil and petrochemicals industries. In its earnings call for Q4FY20 on April 30, RIL had said that investments similar to size in Facebook were going to follow in the coming months. A key part of Jio Platforms, in addition to the Jio network, is JioMart, the grocery home delivery service that will be closely integrated with Facebook’s WhatsApp, which 400 million people have installed in India. Increased…
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