Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will invest $1.5 billion in the telecommunications and digital services business controlled by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, bringing total new investment in Jio Platforms Ltd. to $15.2 billion since April.
The Public Investment Fund will hold a 2.32% stake in the arm of Reliance Industries Ltd., the Mumbai-based company said in a statement Thursday.
The deal, the 11th into Jio in about two months, adds to the list of high-profile backers betting the company will disrupt India’s massive consumer market with its technology. Reliance Industries has vowed to pay down net debt to zero before March 2021, while using its roughly 400 million wireless phone subscribers as the cornerstone of an e-commerce and digital business.
Ambani’s $65 billion digital unit has sold about 25% in stakes to buyers including Facebook Inc. and U.S. private equity firms including KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and General Atlantic.
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