Twitter has led a $100m series D round for social media app ShareChat that valued the multilingual social network operator at $650m.

India-based social networking platform ShareChat has received $100m in series D capital from a consortium led by social media firm Twitter, TechCrunch reported yesterday.

TrustBridge Partners, Shunwei Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAIF Capital, India Quotient and Morningside Venture Capital also contributed to the series D round, which valued ShareChat at $650m.

Founded in 2015 and owned by holding company Mohalla Tech, ShareChat operates a social networking app that is available in 15 regional languages including Hindi and Tamil. The service…

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