China’s Luckin Coffee, a self-declared challenger to Starbucks Corp, has raised $150 million in its latest round of funding from investors including BlackRock Inc, which values the company at $2.9 billion.
The investment, $125 million of which came from a private equity fund managed by BlackRock, follows a $200 million funding round in November that had increased the company’s valuation to $2.2 billion, Luckin said in a statement on Thursday.
