Tencent leads $16m Series C in US firm Academia.edu

Tencent leads $16m Series C in US firm Academia.edu

Visitors use their smartphones underneath the logo of Tencent at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing May 6, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

US-based Academia.edu, a platform for sharing academic research papers, has raised $16 million in a Series C funding round led by Tencent Holdings, according to a report by Finsmes.

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