<article>Audio-based knowledge sharing platform <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Fenda" target="_blank">Fenda</a> has raised $25 million in Series A funding from venture fund investors Vision Plus Capital and Sequoia Capital.</article>

Audio-based knowledge sharing platform <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Fenda" target="_blank">Fenda</a> has raised $25 million in Series A funding from venture fund investors Vision Plus Capital and Sequoia Capital.
<a style="color: #000080;" href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=wang+sicong&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1259&amp;bih=636&amp;source=lnms&amp;sa=X&amp;sqi=2&amp;pjf=1&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjW1c_n1crNAhVCso8KHRiPDG4Q_AUICygA&amp;dpr=2" target="_blank">Wang Sicong</a>, son of China&#8217;s richest man and <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=dalian+wanda" target="_blank">Dalian Wanda Group</a> chairman Wang Jianlin, and Luoji Siwei have also invested in the round, the company said in a press conference.
Vision Plus Capital manages RMB2 billion and invests in early-stage companies in mobile healthcare, technology and consumer sectors.
The round values the 42-day old startup at $100 million. It was launched on Tencent Holding&#8217;s WeChat app and has rapidly gained in popularity.
Fenda is similar to <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Quora" target="_blank">Quora</a> and <a style="color: #000080;" href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/?s=Reddit" target="_blank">Reddit</a>, in that it allows users to ask questions to various professionals and more lucratively, to celebrities.
It drew massive online attention when Wang Sicong participated in a session that included highly personal questions. One of the users paid 3,000 yuan ($450) to ask one such question. Sicong made 260,000 yuan by answering 32 questions.
Other celebrities who have answered user&#8217;s questions include actress Zhang Ziyi, Chinese rock singer Wang Feng, and Feng Lun, the chairman of property giant Vantone Holdings.
The startup has earned RMB18 million through such sessions. Founder Ji Xiaohua, also known as Ji Shisan, said that the platform now has more than 10 million users, including a million who paid. Almost 330,000 professionals in various industries have opened channels on Fenda, which now produces 500,000 voice messages every day.
Companies, doctors, teachers, science researchers and professional recruiters have joined Fenda to directly answer questions from users.
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Fenda has raised $25 million in Series A funding from venture fund investors Vision Plus Capital and Sequoia Capital and Wang Sicong.

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