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Kuaikan Comic: Discover the potential of Chinese comics

  • China
  • 5 min read
  • Jun 21, 2018
  • By Li Yuan

©Kuaikan Comic

This startup wants to prove Japan isn’t the only comic game in town

If you look through the apps on a Chinese teenager’s phone, there’s a good chance you’ll find one called Kuaikan Comic.
Kuaikan Comic was founded in 2014. Unlike many prior Chinese comic platforms, the startup provides mainly original mobile-friendly Chinese comics. Kuaikan Comic has gained 130 million users in less than four years, most of whom are Chinese teens born after 1995.
Investors have noticed. Kuaikan Comic recently secured US$177 million in Series D funding led by Coatue Management.
With 10 million daily active users and a 1.34% weekly market penetratio...

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