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Nature Select raises over $100m for AI social app Elys

China-based Nature Select, developer of the AI social app Elys, has closed a series A+ round of more than US$100 million, backed by Qiming.

Smartphone showing a social app interface with AI chat elements, symbolizing the Elys app from Nature Select.
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Nature Select, the China-based company behind the AI social app Elys, has raised more than US$100 million in a series A+ funding round. The startup is backed by Qiming.

The size of the round is notable for a series A+ financing, a stage that typically sits between early and growth-stage rounds. It signals that investors continue to commit large sums to consumer applications that combine social networking with artificial intelligence.

What is known

Elys is positioned as an AI social app. Beyond the amount raised and the round's designation, no further details were available at the time of writing, including the full list of participating investors, the valuation or how the company plans to allocate the new capital.

For users and the wider industry, the funding gives Nature Select resources to develop Elys further and to compete in a crowded field of AI-driven consumer products, particularly in China, where the company is based.

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