Xiaomi, the fast-rising Chinese smartphone maker, is in talks to raise close to $1.5bn in new capital at a valuation set to exceed $40bn, in the largest private financing for a venture-backed company since Facebook in 2011.
Negotiations with investors including DST – the Russian internet company that also backed Alibaba, Facebook and Airbnb – are yet to be finalised, according to people familiar with the discussions. But if completed, the deal would propel the four-year-old Chinese company to the top tier of the global technology industry at a valuation exceeding that of Sony and Lenovo put together.
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