It seems like each week brings new investments for SoftBank’s mammoth Vision Fund. We’re keeping track.
Where SoftBank has invested its $100 billion Vision Fund
Our ongoing tally of the megafund’s investments.
Rani Molla was a senior correspondent at Vox and has been focusing her reporting on the future of work. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade — often in charts — including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
Led by Recode 100 honoree Masayoshi Son, the Japanese company has changed the landscape of venture capital, making it both a hero (to startups) and a villain (to other venture capitalists). Last year, SoftBank was involved in more than half of the top 10 biggest investments in VC-backed startups.
Here are some recent investments:
- SoftBank’s Vision Fund will acquire about a 20 percent equity position in GM Cruise, which GM bought in 2016, for $2.25 billion over two payments.
- SoftBank, along with the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC and Sequoia Capital, are giving food-delivery company DoorDash $535 million.
- $300 million in dog-walking service Wag, giving SoftBank a 45 percent stake in the company.
- Unexpected $865 million funding round for construction company Katerra.
- Closing of $9.3 billion investment in Uber, making SoftBank Uber’s largest shareholder.
In case you’re having trouble keeping track of SoftBank’s diverse investments, here’s our running tally in chart form:
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
By Theodore Schleifer
