Penguin Fairy Tale Wraps Up USD6.3 Million A-Round, Will Ramp Up Content Creation
Tang Shihua
DATE:  May 18 2018
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
Penguin Fairy Tale Wraps Up USD6.3 Million A-Round, Will Ramp Up Content Creation Penguin Fairy Tale Wraps Up USD6.3 Million A-Round, Will Ramp Up Content Creation

(Yicai Global) May 18 -- Penguin Fairy Tale, an open children's content platform affiliated to Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., recently completed a CNY40 million (USD6.3 million) A-round financing. Proceeds will support content creation, state media The Paper reported.

The funding round was led by United Media FOFs, with Peakview Capital acting as secondary investor. Penguin Fairy Tale was incubated by Shenzhen-based Tencent and has received pre-A round funding from the tech behemoth. It is a startup specializing in collecting and issuing a diverse range of high-quality copyrighted digital content for kids and creating intellectual property across different platforms.

Users of the its two apps now top 35 million. The platform obtains its content by attracting top IP, publishing houses, studios and individual creators. Its team produces videos, audio content and books that cater to parents' and children's needs. This content is then promoted and marketed to downstream users through distribution channels that its team and its partners have developed.

Penguin Fairy Tale started experimenting with the paid content-based profit model in January last year, and this year released a story reader based on its IP resources. Content (including paid content and content licensing) and the book reader together make up about half its total revenue.

Editor: Ben Armour

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