Unicorns 4/224; 独角兽企业

Unicorns 4/224; 独角兽企业


Didi Chuxing

Overview

Acquisitions: 2 Acquisitions
Total Equity Funding: $7.44B in 7 Rounds from 18 Investors
Headquarters: Beijing, Beijing
Description: Didi Chuxing is the world’s largest one-stop mobile transportation platform.
Founders: Cheng Wei
Categories: Public Transportation, Mobile Apps, Transportation
Website: http://www.xiaojukeji.com/en/index.html

Company Details

Founded: September 1, 2012
Aliases: formerly Didi Kuaidi
Employees: 1k – 5k | 7 in Crunchbase

Founded in 2012, DiDi is the world’s largest mobile transportation service platform, offering a broad range of mobile technology-based transportation options across over 400 major Chinese cities, including taxi hailing, private car hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As the leader in China’s sharing economy initiative, DiDi completed a total of 1.43 billion rides on its platform in 2015, while applying its big-data capabilities to solving the country’s transportation and environmental challenges. In February 2016 DiDi became the world’s second largest online transaction platform, next only to Alibaba.