Beijing Xingpai Group has returned a second time to invest $29.8m in Ucommune through a real estate affiliate, two months after reports the co-working space provider was preparing an IPO.
China-based co-working space provider Ucommune has secured more than RMB200m ($29.8m) in funding from an unnamed real estate affiliate of industrial conglomerate Beijing Xingpai Group, China Money Network has reported.
Founded in 2015 as URWork, Ucommune operates more than 200 co-working spaces in cities across China as well as Taiwan, the US and Singapore. Between them, the locations have attracted more than 120,000 members to date.
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Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.