キングダム・ホールディング＠サウジが米リフト株5.3％取得

Business | 2015年 12月 24日 18:59 JST
サウジ王子率いる投資グループ、2.5億ドルで米リフト株5.3％取得

［ドバイ　２４日　ロイター］ - サウジアラビアのアルワリード・ビン・タラール王子の投資会社キングダム・ホールディング4280.SEは２４日、同社率いる投資グループが、米配車アプリ運営会社リフト（Ｌｙｆｔ）社の株式５．３％を２億４７７０万ドルで取得したことを明らかにした。

サンフランシスコを拠点に、車を所有するドライバーと移動手段を必要とする利用者を結びつける「ライドシェア」サービスを提供するリフトは、ウーバー・テクノロジーズ[UBER.UL]の米国における最大のライバル。

ベンチャーキャピタル専門家の話では、同社は今回の「シリーズＦ」の増資で最大１０億ドルの資金調達を計画している。

キングダム、アルワリード王子、その他の投資家からなるグループは１億ドルを出資し、このうちキングダムは３１００万ドルを受け持ったという。

さらに、キングダムと同王子は１億４７７０万ドルを投じ、流通市場でリフト社の優先株を取得した。このうちキングダムの投資分は７３９０万ドル。

キングダムのリフト株保有は現在２．３％だという。
http://jp.reuters.com/article/saudi-arabia-prince-idJPKBN0U70RG20151224

Lyft is a privately held American transportation network company (TNC) based in San Francisco. The company's mobile-phone application facilitates peer-to-peer ridesharing by connecting passengers who need a ride with drivers who have a car.^[1][2][3] Lyft operates in about 65 U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, with plans to expand domestically and internationally.
As of May 2015, Lyft had raised more than $1 billion from investors including Carl Icahn,^[4] Rakuten, Coatue Management, Alibaba, Andreessen Horowitz, Fortress, Third Point, Founders Fund, Mayfield Fund, K9 Ventures and Floodgate.^[5][6]

Lyft was launched in the summer of 2012 by Logan Green and John Zimmer as a service of Zimride, a ridesharing company the two founded in 2007.".^[7] Zimride focused on ridesharing for longer trips, often between cities,^[8] and linked drivers and passengers through the Facebook Connect application.^[9] Zimride eventually became the largest rideshare program in the United States (U.S.).^[10][11]


John Zimmer is the co-founder and president of Lyft Inc., which he founded with Logan Green in 2012. Lyft operates in more than 60 cities in the U.S. with more than 10 million shared rides taken to date.
Zimmer grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 2006, Zimmer graduated first in his class at Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society, as well as a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity. After graduation, Zimmer worked as an analyst in real estate finance at Lehman Brothers in New York City. While at Lehman Brothers, Zimmer spent most of his time creating real estate models in Microsoft Excel. Zimmer left Lehman Brothers three months before it declared bankruptcy. In 2007, alongside Logan Green, Zimmer founded Zimride, a ridesharing platform that coordinated carpools, especially across college campuses.^[1]

Green and Zimmer focused the service on carpooling between connected users and making carpooling fun and interesting.^[10] Zimride is currently the largest rideshare platform in the United States.^[11] As of April 2012, Zimride has raised $7.5 million in funding, has facilitated more than 26,000 carpools, has helped users travel over 100 million miles, employs 29, and has created over $50 million in savings in vehicle operating expenses.^[12] The service is active at over 125 universities including USC, University of Minnesota, UCLA, UCSF, Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan.^{[6][7][13][14]}

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