DJI, the Shenzhen-based drone maker, has secured a $75m investment from Accel Partners, the Silicon Valley venture capital group that backed Facebook and Dropbox, in one of the group’s biggest single investments in a Chinese start-up.
The investment values the company at $8bn, according to people close to the deal, making it the latest beneficiary of interest from global investors in Chinese technology groups.
Sameer Gandhi, the Accel partner who led the investment, compared DJI with Apple for its ability to combine hardware and software to create a new kind of technology platform, for which other developers can create apps.
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