Uploaded on Jul 13, 2022
Mobile-first content platform Glance had announced its $200 million Series D financing round from Reliance-owned Jio Platforms. While the company disclosed the size of the round, it didn’t give further details such as valuation and shareholding structure.
Decoding Glance Series D round and captable
Decoding Glance Series D round and
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Mobile-first content platform Glance had announced its $200 million Series D financing round
from Reliance-owned Jio Platforms. While the company disclosed the size of the round, it didn’t
give further details such as valuation and shareholding structure.
Fintrackr has decoded these details with its regulatory filings from Singapore. Glance Pte has
passed a resolution to allot 12,295,766 Series D preference shares at issue price of $16.26 per
share and 70,084,079 Series D warrants to raise $200 million from Jio Platforms, the company’s
regulatory filing in Singapore shows.
After the new round, Jio Platforms owns 20.27% stake in Glance while Nimbi Pte Ltd, Mitral II
LP and Google’s stake will be diluted to 50.45%, 18.03% and 10.13% respectively. Before this
round, Nimbi had 63.3% stake in the company whereas Mitral and Google controlled 22.6% and
12.7% stake respectively.
Glance’s new investor Jio Platforms and its existing backer Google are already deeply
connected to each other. In July 2020, the search giant had invested $4.5 billion in Jio Platforms
as part of a larger plan. Google has plans to invest $10 billion in India over the next few years.
As per Fintarckr’s estimates, Glance has been valued at around $1.6-1.7 billion post allotment
of the Series D round. The Naveen Tewari-led company crossed $1 billion valuation mark after
a $145 million round led by Google in December 2020. It has raised $390 million to date.
Glance was separated from the InMobi Group in July 2019. Besides Glance, InMobi has two
more subsidiaries: advertising technology platform InMobi UMC and data business platform
TruFactor. Glance offers lock screen content services that range between 10 seconds and two
minutes long and includes media content, news and casual games on Android phones. It has
tied up with over 1,000 media and agencies and several smartphone makers such as Samsung,
Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi and Jio smartphones to pre-install Glance in their popular models.
On Monday, the Bengaluru-based company claimed that it registered a 30% year-on-year
growth in its users. It currently has 180 million active users on the platform. The company
crossed the 100 million active users mark in May 2020. In April, Glance announced that it is
partnering with smart television brands to offer its infotainment services on TV lock screens.
Besides India, Indonesia, and parts of Southeast Asia, Glance is also expanding its market to
countries like US, Brazil, Mexico and Russia. Its revenue couldn’t be ascertained as the
company’s holding entity in Singapore is yet to file an annual financial statement for FY21 and
FY22.]
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