Financial Training Provider Golden Education Secures New Round of Funding Led by Tencent

Golden Education is a provider of financial education and training, with courses covering more than 100 categories, including accounting, securities, futures, banking, and other industries. Recently, the company has announced its new round of financing led by Tencent, with Loyal Valley Capital and Hundreds Capital also participating.

Founded in 2006, Golden Education had focused on the business-to-business market. After more than ten years of development, the company started to tap into the business-to-customer market, and as of now, Golden Education has served more than 150,000 companies and millions of students, opened 120 branches in nearly 65 cities across the country and overseas branches in Australia and the UK. Moreover, the company has established cooperative relations with more than 300 universities both domestics and overseas.

Since 2014, Golden Education has successively obtained strategic investments from New Oriental and 51job, a Chinese recruitment website. In 2018, the company secured a round of funding jointly invested by Hillhouse Capital and Morgan Stanley.

In the future, Golden Education will further expand its business in all domains such as postgraduate entrance examination, study abroad, internships, and practical training. The company aims to provide career planning and lifelong education, promote Golden Business School projects, innovative technology teaching platforms , and learning tools, together with continuing to explore overseas markets.