Taxi app GrabTaxi raises $350 mn from CIC, investors

Taxi-booking app GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd said it raised over USD 350 million from investors including China's sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation, in the Southeast Asian company's largest ever fundraising round.

Other investors include hedge fund Coatue Management LLC and China's mobile car-ride hailing company Didi Kuaidi, said GrabTaxi, which competes with Uber Technologies Inc.

GrabTaxi, which counts Japanese telecoms firm SoftBank Corp and a unit of Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings as shareholders, has raised a total of about USD 700 million after the latest fundraising.