{"id":139783,"date":"2025-11-05T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139783"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:00:11","slug":"tencent-backed-uzbek-start-up-eyes-pre-ipo-funding-round-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139783","title":{"rendered":"Tencent-backed Uzbek start-up eyes pre-IPO funding round in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostUzbekistan\u2019s first tech unicorn, Uzum, is seeking a final pre-initial public offering (IPO) funding round next year in Hong Kong, after raising a US$70 million investment from Tencent Holdings months ago.<br \/>\nUzum co-founder Nikolay Seleznev said on Tuesday that Tencent\u2019s investment in August bolstered the company\u2019s plans to go public in 2027, with a potential listing in Hong Kong, London, Abu Dhabi or Nasdaq in the US.<br \/>\nThe Tencent-led funding lifted Uzum\u2019s valuation to US$1.5 billion, while opening&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3331527\/tencent-backed-uzum-uzbekistans-first-tech-unicorn-eyes-pre-ipo-funding-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostUzbekistan\u2019s first tech unicorn, Uzum, is seeking a final pre-initial public offering (IPO) funding round next year in Hong Kong, after raising a US$70&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139783"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}