Lockscreen content provider Glance is raising $200m from Jio Platforms at a unicorn valuation while Sobot, Smart Logic and Akulaku each secured $100m.

Funding

Diversified conglomerate Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms subsidiary agreed yesterday to provide $200m in series D funding for Glance, a Singapore-headquartered provider of digital content for mobile device lock screens. The round valued Glance at $1.7bn to $1.8bn according to Reuters, and it followed $145m in funding from internet technology provider Google and Mithril Capital in late 2020 at a valuation exceeding $1bn.

Internet and telecommunications group SoftBank has led a $100m series D round for Sobot, a China-based…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.