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Sumeet Singh
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Kanzhun Pre-IPO

Kanzhun, an online recruitment platform in China, aims to raise around US$800m in its US IPO. The company is backed by Tencent. Kanzhun runs BOSS Zhipin APP, which allows enterprise users and jobseekers to directly chat, thus, providing more convenience to both.

Kanzhun is the largest online recruitment platform in China, as measured by average MAU in 2020, according to the CIC Report. As of Mar 2021, it had 13.0m verified enterprise users, 6.3m verified enterprises, and 85.8m verified job seekers on its platform. For 12 months ended Mar 2021, it had 2.89m paid enterprise customers. Its average MAU (including job seekers and enterprise users) reached 24.0m in 1Q21.

The company nearly doubled its revenue in 2020 and its 1Q21 revenue was nearly triple that of 1Q20. Furthermore, while it remains loss making, it has been operating cash flow positive since 2020.

There is nothing much to complain about the financial performance of the company, however, its disclosures are patchy. The company has failed to clearly explain its revenue generation strategy and hasn’t been very clear about its enterprise users or its job seekers growth and classification.
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