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Kobe Bryant Announces Investment in Chinese Education Company VIPKID

-VIPKID, the leading online education platform for children in China to learn English through teachers in North America, today announced it has received investment from the $100 million fund by Bryant Stibel, the venture capital firm announced by Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel at the NYSE on August 22

Aug. 3, VIPKID announced a $100 million Series C round led jointly by Sequoia Capital and Jack Ma’s Yunfeng Capital

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160823005760/en/Kobe-Bryant-Announces-Investment-Chinese-Education-Company

Kobe's investment firm (Bryant Stibel Growth Equity, Bryant Stibel Ventures and Bryant Stibel Value.) - https://www.bryantstibel.com/about/

''Bryant first visited China to host a basketball clinic in 1998. He returned on a promotional tour for Adidas in 2001.

Since then, he has visited China every year from 2006 through 2015 on promotional tours for Nike.''

''He competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and visited China with the Lakers for two exhibition games against the Golden State Warriors in 2013.

He's scheduled to return to China this summer, and it's no wonder Bryant has referred to that nation as his "home away from home."''

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/15184228/eight-reasons-why-retiring-los-angeles-lakers-legend-kobe-bryant-rock-star-china