Royole Corp. has announces that it has raised a total of US$800 million in its Series D round of funding and holds Cooperation Agreements from top investors including: Royole's Series D funding includes: US$240 million of equity financing from Warmsun Holding Group, Hanfor Capital, SPD Bank, Zhonghai Shengrong Capital, and TanShi Capital; and US$560 million of debt financing from Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China CITIC Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, and Ping An Bank.
Since its inception in 2012, the company has received five rounds of investments from global venture capitalists and private equity firms, including IDG Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, CITIC Capital, Costone Capital, Knights Investment Group, Alpha Wealth etc. In October 2016, Royole completed its pre-D round of funding with a company valuation of US$3 billion, making it one of the world's fastest growing technology start-ups.
In Q4 2015, Royole began development and construction on its US$1.7 billion international flexible display campus (the world's first Quasi-G6 fully flexible display production line) in Shenzhen.
The annual capacity of the new production line is expected to be more than 50 million flexible display units and able to support a large number of consumer electronics, intelligent transportation, smart home appliances, sportswear, fashion, home decor, robotics, education and many other industrial applications.
Royole's core technologies and products include:
- the world's thinnest full-colour AMOLED flexible display with a thickness of only 0.01mm and a bending radius of 1mm
- novel flexible sensor technology on transparent, super-thin, flexible film
- 3D mobile theatre for movies, gaming, and more
Throughout the past five years, Royole has filed more than 1,200 core technology intellectual property rights.
"Royole's mission is to create unique technologies and products to improve the way people interact with the world. In the past five years, we have been focusing on the innovation, development and production of super-thin flexible displays, transparent flexible sensors, and 3D mobile theater devices."
"The funding from our impressive Series D partners will help our company to invest more in R&D, production, and sales to accelerate every aspect of the company's growth. We look forward to working with our partners together to build a wonderful 'Flexible+' world."
Dr. Bill Liu, Royole Founder and CEO
"The cooperation with Royole is an important step in our Finance & Technology development strategy."
"China CITIC Bank has significant industry partners and resources to provide strong support for Royole's business growth, production campus construction, company management, market development, and asset management."
Ms. X. Chen, representing China CITIC Bank