WeWork China gets $200 mln investment, appoints new acting CEO
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A WeWork office seen in Beijing, China, October 2, 2018. /VCG

A WeWork office seen in Beijing, China, October 2, 2018. /VCG

Office-sharing startup WeWork's China unit has received an additional 200 million U.S. dollars in funding from existing investors and has appointed shareholder Trustbridge Partners' executive Michael Jiang as its acting chief executive officer.

Private equity firm Trustbridge and Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings had held talks with the Chinese unit of the troubled co-working startup over increasing their stake in the company to take majority ownership, Reuters reported in January.

The latest fundraise was led by Trustbridge, WeWork said.

The New York-based startup said last month it had slashed its cash burn rate almost in half from the end of last year and obtained a 1.1-billion-U.S.-dollar commitment in new financing from SoftBank Group Corp.

The company shelved its initial public offering in 2019 after investors grew wary of its losses, business model and corporate governance, further leading to the resignation of co-founder and former chief executive officer Adam Neumann.

WeWork has since undergone an enormous management shake-up and remains enmeshed in lawsuits over a three-billion-U.S.-dollar tender offer to existing shareholders.

Source(s): Reuters