SINGAPORE (June 11): Grab, the ride-hailing platform, is six years old this month, and a far cry from its early days as a taxi booking app created by a pair of Harvard Business School classmates. It is the most valuable start-up in Southeast Asia, a unicorn by any standard, having raised US$4.1 billion ($5.5 billion) in disclosed funding. There have been at least three funding rounds that raised amounts that were undisclosed.

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