The Alibaba-backed social messaging platform has raised $1.8bn since February 2015, with more than $1.1bn coming this year.
US-based visual messaging platform Snapchat has raised $1.8bn in its series F round, according to a regulatory filing yesterday.
The filing indicates the start of the round stretches back to February 2015, meaning it would incorporate the $538m provided in 2015 by e-commerce firm Alibaba, which reportedly invested $200m, financial services group Fidelity Investments, York Capital and Glade Brook Capital.
The round included Fidelity, which invested $175m in March 2016, General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, T. Rowe Price, Lone Pine, Glade…
