FXiaoKe raises funding from CITIC PE, Hillhouse Capital

100 Yuan notes are seen in this illustration picture in Beijing November 5, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Lee/Files

By Anirvan Ghosh

March 7, 2016

FXiaoKe, a Beijing-based mobile office solution provider, has raised an undisclosed amount in funding from CITIC Private Equity Funds Management (CITIC PE) and Hillhouse Capital.

Existing investors IDG Capital Partners, DCM and Northern Light Venture Capital also participated in the round, the company said in a media briefing. CITIC PE is a unit of CITIC Ltd., China’s largest conglomerate engaged in financial services, real estate and infrastructure, engineering contracting, resources and energy and manufacturing.

FXiaoKe was founded in 2011, and started a provider of sales management software that supported customer relationship management, along with field operation management and distribution chain management.

It later became a software as a service (SaaS) provider of mobile office solutions to Chinese companies. In July, it raised $100 million in series D funding from IDG, DCM and Northern Light Venture Capital. It had earlier raised $50 million in a series C round led by DCM in December 2014.

SaaS is a licensing and distribution model for companies that host software centrally. Such licensing is offered to clients on a subscription basis.

Fxiaoke now has more than a thousand employees, with offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou. It claims to have more than 115,000 registered enterprise users.

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  • A reporter to track companies/startups that have raised private capital, and have the potential to become unicorns. SEA currently has over 40 companies with a valuation of over $100 million and under $1 billion.
  • A reporter who can get behind the scenes and reveal how funding rounds are put together, or why they’ve failed to materialise. She/he in this role will largely focus on long-format stories. 
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