SoftBank Vision Fund

Summary

SoftBank Investment Advisers is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main office of represented VC is situated in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the SoftBank Investment Advisers, startups are often financed by Temasek Holdings, Qualcomm Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, T. Rowe Price. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank, T. Rowe Price, Coatue Management.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Uber, WeWork, Alibaba Bendi Shenghuo Fuwu Gongsi For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Robotics, Transportation. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The fund was created by Masayoshi Son. We also calculated 25 valuable employees in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from SoftBank Investment Advisers is more than 1 billion dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this SoftBank Investment Advisers performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 76 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year.