Alibaba Is Said to Invest Big in Indian Social Video App VMate
Liao Shumin
DATE:  May 29 2019
/ SOURCE:  yicai
Alibaba Is Said to Invest Big in Indian Social Video App VMate Alibaba Is Said to Invest Big in Indian Social Video App VMate

(Yicai Global) May 28 -- Alibaba Group Holdings has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Indian social video platform VMate, China News Service reported today, citing an insider at the Chinese internet giant.

VMate held a party in New Delhi on May 28 to celebrate its fund-raising success, the insider said. The operator of Alibaba's internet browser, UCWeb Internet Technology, set up and incubated VMate at the end of 2017.

With tens of millions of active users, VMate produces more than one million items of user-generated content a day and is among the top-tier of short video apps in India along with China's TikTok, the report said. VMate is also aimed at a young demographic.

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Keywords:   Alibaba Group,VMate,Investment