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SoftBank Investment Advisers

Founders Masayoshi Son

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Total investments 476
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$356M
Portfolio companies 341
Rounds per year 14.00
Lead investments 119
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 28
Key employees 25
Stages of investment
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PT Good Doctor Technology Indonesia

Health Care
$10M09 Oct 2023 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Kigen

Information Technology
Software
$20M06 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Nebraska, United States

Noah Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$150M19 Apr 2023 San Carlos, California, United States

Infogrid

Artificial Intelligence
Facility Management
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Property Management
Smart Building
Software
$99M11 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Dealtale

Analytics
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
21 Feb 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Quris Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
$9M20 Dec 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Swell Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$120M22 Nov 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

ArsenalBio

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Cloud Computing
$220M06 Sep 2022 South San Francisco, California, United States

Vendr

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$150M16 Jun 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
News
Energy Vault Raises $100M in Series C Funding

– Energy Vault is a Westlake Village, CA-based creator of gravity-based, grid-scale energy storage solutions with its proprietary technology.
– Company raised $100m in Series C funding.
– The round was led by existing investor Prime Movers Lab, with participation from other existing investors SoftBank Vision Fund, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, Helena, and Idealab X, and new investors Pickering Energy Partners through its Energy Equity Opportunity Fund, SailingStone Global Energy Transition, A.T. Gekko, Crexa Capital Advisors LLC, Green Storage Solutions Venture I LLC, and Gordon Crawford.
– The company intends to use the funds to ramp up multi-continent deployments of its innovative EVx™ platform, including fulfilling a pipeline of customer agreements across markets in the U.S., Middle East, Europe, and Australia.

Vividion Announces $135M Series C Financing

– Vividion Therapeutics, a biotechnology company, announced the completion of a $135M Series C financing.
– The financing was co-led by Logos Capital and Boxer Capital.
– Additional new investors in the raise include SoftBank Investment Advisers, Avoro Capital Advisors, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, RA Capital Management, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Woodline Partners LP, Acuta Capital and Driehaus Capital Management.

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Total investments 476
Average round size 356M
Rounds per year 14.00
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 119
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 28
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PT Good Doctor Technology Indonesia

Health Care
$10M09 Oct 2023 Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Kigen

Information Technology
Software
$20M06 Jul 2023 Cambridge, Nebraska, United States

Noah Medical

Health Care
Health Diagnostics
Medical Device
$150M19 Apr 2023 San Carlos, California, United States

Infogrid

Artificial Intelligence
Facility Management
Information Technology
Internet of Things
Property Management
Smart Building
Software
$99M11 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

Dealtale

Analytics
Predictive Analytics
SaaS
21 Feb 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Quris Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
$9M20 Dec 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Swell Energy

Energy
Renewable Energy
$120M22 Nov 2022 Santa Monica, California, United States

ArsenalBio

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Cloud Computing
$220M06 Sep 2022 South San Francisco, California, United States

Vendr

Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$150M16 Jun 2022 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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