Ele.me, a China-based food delivery startup Ele.me previously backed by food listing service Dianping, has closed hundreds of millions of Chinese yuan (RMB100m = $16m) in new funding, Techweb reported yesterday.
The company has not disclosed the amount raised or the identity of the investors in its latest round, but it was reportedly led by one of China’s biggest tech companies.
Ele.me raised a $80m series D round from food listing service Dianping in May 2014, having secured $25m in a 2013 series C round backed by venture capital firms Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and GSR Ventures.
Matrix and GSR both previously invested in a 2011 series A round and a 2013 series B, both of which raised undisclosed amounts for Ele.me.
Founded in 2009 by students at Shanghai University, Ele.me now employs more than 2,000 staff and operates in more than 200 cities across China. Dianping integrated Ele.me’s product into its own platform as part of the series D investment, but Ele.me still operates independently.