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Sumeet Singh
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Kuaishou Technology Pre-IPO

Kuaishou Technology (KT) is a content community and social platform. The company is backed by Tencent, Sequoia China, Baidu, DST Global, Boyu Capital, Temasek and others.

As of six months ended Jun 2020, it had 302m daily active users (DAUs), who spent 85 mins on average on the app every day. It also had 776m monthly active users (MAUs) and total e-commerce GMV of RMB109.6bn. On an average 1.1bn short videos were uploaded on its app during 1H20.

As per iResearch, Kuaishou was globally the largest live streaming platform by gross billings from virtual gifting and average live streaming MPUs, the second largest short video platform by average DAUs, and the second largest live streaming e-commerce platform by GMV, over six months ended June 30, 2020.

KT’s revenue has grown by 4.7x over FY17-19, while its gross profit has grown by 5.4x. However, after remaining profitable throughout, the company reported losses in 1H20, for reasons that it hasn’t clearly explained. Moreover, revenue from its mainstay, live streaming, has been slowing down, while it appears to have lost market share for online marketing and it hardly charges any commissions for e-commerce.
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BEIJING KUAISHOU TECHNOLOGY

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Aequitas Research
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