After three years of getting a B round of U.S. dollar funding, the industry rumors it has finalised the C round of $100 million trillion financing, although the United States do not respond to the network, but still caused by the industry hot, such as rumors are true, this will be the Baidu department and Tencent peers have been injected after the boss began to formally start the signal after the process, but also will be O2O (Online To Offline, that is, let the Internet become the forefront of offline trading industry competition accelerated the prelude to the white-hot.
Recently, a source pointed out that the United States Network C-round financing is nearing completion, financing will exceed 100 million U.S. dollars, the former investment side Sequoia Capital dominated, the rumors of the United States network did not respond. According to the Beijing Business News reporter, the United States group online since October 2010 and July 2011, respectively, received two rounds of financing, financing total of 70 million U.S. dollars, the investment side for Sequoia Capital, Alibaba, Northern Lights and Walden International.
Although the United States network in the last three years no new financing news, but it announced last year to achieve annual profit. According to the regiment 800 data shows that July 2011 U.S. network Monthly sales of 109 million yuan, ranking industry third, compared to the first 58 million Yuan Gap, and the current United States Group Network has been the first group buying industry, sales in February this year than July 2011 18 times times the increase, to 2.011 billion yuan.
In this respect, people in the industry said that the development of the United States network at this stage depends on endogenous growth. According to the United States network insiders said, "from the overall layout, last year, we expanded 20 new cities, the United States now more than 200 city stations." In the multi-screen layout, the United States network not only has its own site of the United States client, as well as the United States Regiment hotel, Cat's eye film and the new line of the United States to sell a total of four app.
Cat's eye film in the horse during the spring Festival sold 5 million movie tickets, accounted for the entire spring Festival long holiday sold the total number of tickets 13%, the current cat's eye movie every day to provide more than 2,500 cinemas in real-time video inquiries, more than 500 cinemas online ticket selection. For the convenience of ticket purchase users to take tickets, the United States Group Network also launched last year, the film ticket purchase terminals. Based on the above layout, "the United States network now mobile end of the turnover ratio has reached 70%," the person said.
However, in the United States to increase the volume of the network in the past few years, group purchase industry and even the entire O2O market pattern has more changes than before, the industry Matthew Effect has intensified. According to the latest report of the Regiment 800, the current monthly sales of the United States as the first one were 1 time times the second, and 5.1 times times the third place. At the same time, in the first three, the U.S. group compared to Baidu glutinous rice and the public comments more independent.
"In the United States to occupy market share and independent operation of the advantages of the industry out of the United States network of Capital News, the rhythm of the play is natural," the industry believes, "it looks like the U.S. regiment is ready to striking, and Baidu and Tencent department O2O website launched PK War." "Other analysts said that if the United States and the network can maintain a faster growth in 2014 years while achieving a break-even, this can give the capital market enough confidence, the listing plan can be achieved."