The corporate's share of PP Parking reportedly stands at 11% after it led a $29.8m round for the parking management software provider.

Internet group Tencent has led a RMB200m ($29.8m) funding round for China-based parking management software developer PP Parking.

PP Parking has created a platform that offers artificial intelligence-based car-parking management in addition to digital payment and real-time data sharing tools. It had previously received about $1.6m from Synergy Innovation Fund in 2015.

The deal gave Tencent and its affiliates an 11.1% stake in the company, according to Asia Auto Group, and Zhong Xuedan, vice-president of Tencent subsidiary Tencent Intelligent Mobility,…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.