Pink Beard private Car share rental service Lyft complete

Today, Lyft, which offers private car share rental services, has completed a $250 million D round financing. Compared with last month Lyfy to Delaware state submitted a document of 150 million dollars more than $100 million. "We didn't expect investors to be so enthusiastic," said co-founder John Zimmer. ”

In addition to the former investors Andreessen Horowitz, founders Fund and Mayfield, hedge funds Coatue, Third Point and Alibaba also joined the financing. Up to now, the total amount raised by Lyft has exceeded 330 million dollars.

At present, the Lyft is valued at $700 million trillion and has already launched services in 30 cities, while Lyft's services were limited to San Francisco and Los Angeles a year ago. The number of employees has increased from the first 30 to 240 people. John Zimmer revealed that Lyft plans to start taking the international route this year. But it is not known which country to start. Will Ali's investment bring Lyft into China, which has a huge market?

By contrast, Lyft's most powerful competitor, Uber, has raised 405 million of billions of dollars in services in 34 countries and 90 cities. Last year, Uber's valuation has reached $3.5 billion trillion. February 13 this year Uber landed in the Chinese market, currently open the city has Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou Three, the Chinese name is "excellent step."