SoftBank appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1981. The venture was found in Asia in Japan. The main department of described VC is located in the Tokyo.
This organization was formed by Masayoshi Son. The overall number of key employees were 8.
The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The real fund results show that this VC is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. When the investment is from SoftBank the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. This SoftBank works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Alibaba, ByteDance, Didi Chuxing. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Artificial Intelligence, Network Security. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the SoftBank, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital India, QED Investors, Mobius Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tencent Holdings, Spark Capital, Tiger Global Management. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SoftBank Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Spark Capital.
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| Company | Industry | Round Size | Date | Investors | Location |
ASAAS | 08 Oct 2024 | Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil | |||
avatarin | $33M | 18 Jul 2024 | Tokyo, Kantō, Japan | ||
Skild AI | $300M | 09 Jul 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
Firefly | $23M | 29 May 2024 | Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel | ||
Wayve | $1B | 06 May 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
Blue Laser Fusion | $37M | 07 Mar 2024 | California, Kentucky, United States | ||
Admix | $3M | 23 Mar 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom | ||
SilkChart | $5M | 07 Dec 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Cortex | $49M | 29 Sep 2022 | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
