Steven Millward · · 1 min readIn brief: China’s startup Starbucks challenger now valued at $2.9b
- China’s Luckin Coffee, a self-declared challenger to Starbucks, has raised US$150 million in its latest round of funding, which values the company at $2.9 billion, reports Reuters today.
- The investment, US$125 million of which came from a private equity fund managed by BlackRock, follows a US$200 million round in November that had increased the company’s valuation to $2.2 billion, Luckin said in a statement.
- It wants to open 2,500 cafes this year to reach around 4,500 in total, thereby displacing Starbucks as China’s largest coffee chain.
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