Uber’s Top Rival In China ‘Didi’ To Become Asia’s Most Valued Startup

Didi, a Chinese mobile platform taxi calling app stands up to beat its major competitor Uber in Asia and becomes Asia’s most valued startup. It was just a year ago when Uber failed to get recognition in China and then decided to sell its subsidiary to rival Didi Chuxing.

Now, Didi is all set to raise funds worth $50 billion, eventually making itself as Asia’s most valuable startup and stands at the second position in the world after Uber ($68 billion), according to rankings by The Wall Street Journal.

The Wall Street Journal’s ranking was based on three factors: Those that are privately held, those have raised money in the past 4 years and have at least one venture capital firm as an investor.

Uber entered the Chinese market in 2013 and has lost approximately US $2 billion trying to compete with Didi. Uber was doing well in America but they were losing a lot of money in China. Ultimately it was in July 2016, Didi acquired Uber’s China operations.

Didi emerged as one of the major taxi apps in China with as many as 100 million users in more than 300 cities in China. This was established in 2012.

In a different note, major cab aggregator Ola and Didi have a common investor in them- SoftBank and also Didi is an investor in Ola.

By this, we can only say that the cab wars is getting uglier day by day.