Usmanov's holding turned out to be an Uber investor

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The USM Holdings investment holding, founded by billionaire Alisher Usmanov, turned out to be one of Uber investors, having invested several tens of millions of dollars in a taxi service in the US last summer. Then the startup raised $ 1 billion in funding and was valued at $ 51 billion. At that time, a total of more than $ 5 billion was invested in the service. Representatives of USM Holdings refuse to comment on this issue.

Mr. Usmanov’s holding is not the only domestic investor in the American Uber service. The Russian venture fund Caspian VC, initiated by the creation of which was Ziyavudin Magomedov, who is the chairman of the board of directors of the Summa group, also invested in it. Magomedov himself said that the holding invests in the most expensive startup in the world, Uber, in September 2015. A representative of the holding Evgeny Timoshinov claims that Uber plans to open a freight service, which would be very interesting for the group.

In early December last year, in the next round of financing, Uber attracted $ 2.1 billion, as a result of which the company was valued at $ 64.6 billion. Among the investors are Uber Tiger Global Fund and the American company T. Rowe Price Group.
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There are currently 131 unicorn companies in the world, according to The Wall Street Journal. According to information obtained from the CBInsights database, which provides information on promising companies and investments, Uber is currently the largest among startups valued above $ 1 billion. At the beginning of this year (January 11), the taxi service was estimated at $ 62.5 billion. The entry threshold for investors of a new round of financing is 250 thousand dollars.