The dominance of Naspers over the South African stock market is about to be reduced – partially at least. And that’s good news for a number of fund managers.
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When Naspers’s Latin America chief cold-called Alec Oxenford in 2010, he got straight to the point: he wanted to buy a majority stake of the Argentinian entrepreneur’s online classifieds business.
Naspers Ventures is leading a US$2.3-million (R34-million) seed funding round in DappRadar, a platform for discovering and analysing blockchain-based decentralised applications, or dApps.
Three investment banks – Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley – will be paid €7.2-million each for their roles as lead financial advisors in Naspers’s listing of Prosus in Amsterdam.
Naspers said a newly created entity containing assets including a stake in Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings will be valued at about $100-billion (R1.5-trillion).
Not all shareholders are perfectly happy with Naspers at the moment, which made the group’s AGM on Friday a livelier affair than usual.
Naspers is looking to invest in machine learning as Africa’s largest company seeks to expand following an Amsterdam listing of assets including a stake in Tencent Holdings.
Naspers has received enough votes from shareholders to proceed with an Amsterdam listing of assets including a R1.9-trillion stake in Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings.
Tencent Holdings posted a better-than-expected 35% rise in quarterly earnings after Peacekeeper Elite became the gaming giant’s first break-out hit since it won regulatory approval to make money off new titles.
The JSE-listed technology giant is leading a $125-million (R1.9-billion) funding round in Indian “social commerce” marketplace Meesho in a bid to “kick-start e-commerce for the next 500 million online shoppers”.