SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab said on Thursday it has secured new investment of $1 billion from a clutch of financial firms, including global asset manager OppenheimerFunds and China's Ping An Capital.
The funding comes after Toyota Motor Corp in June bought a $1 billion stake in Grab as the lead investor in a financing round launched following Grab's acquisition of Uber Technologies Inc's operations in Southeast Asia.
Other investors in the new funding include Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital, Macquarie Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Grab, which started as a taxi-booking firm six years ago, has been transforming itself into a consumer technology group, offering services such as digital payments and food delivery.
(Reporting by Aradhana Aravindan and Anshuman Daga; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
