Back to Investors
SoftBank

SoftBank

Venture Capital

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the Series C financing round for PrimaryBid.

Portfolio

4

companies


Portfolio companies

W

Wayve

Wayve develops autonomous driving technology powered by embodied AI foundation models.

I

Improbable

Improbable builds scalable metaverse technology and multiplayer networking infrastructure for virtual worlds.

P

PrimaryBid

A fintech platform providing retail investors with fair access to public markets.

OneWeb

OneWeb

OneWeb builds a global communications network powered by low Earth orbit satellites.


Team

Marcelo Claure

Marcelo Claure

COO of SoftBank Group Corp. and CEO of SoftBank Group International

Marcelo brings operating experience from SoftBank alongside leadership roles at Claure Group, Brightstar Capital Partners, and SHEIN.

LinkedIn
AD

Anthony Doeh

Partner

AT

Antoine Theysset

Partner

KM

Kentaro Matsui

Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, Head of the New Business Office at SoftBank Group and Board Member at Wayve


Recent investments

Series C
£837M

The financing round was led by SoftBank with participation from NVIDIA and Microsoft to launch embodied AI products for vehicles.

"At Wayve, our vision is to develop autonomous technology that not only becomes a reality in millions of vehicles but also earns people's trust by seamlessly integrating into their everyday lives to unlock extraordinary value. This significant funding milestone highlights our team's unwavering conviction that Embodied AI will address the long-standing challenges the industry has faced in scaling this technology to everyone, everywhere. Our collaboration with SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Microsoft will help advance our mission to redefine driving with AI at the core. This investment will enable us to develop and launch our first Embodied AI products for the automotive industry, empowering OEMs to provide consumers with trustworthy and beneficial automated driving experiences."
— Alex Kendall, Co-Founder and CEO
Seed
£115M

The financing round was supported by investors including Andreessen Horowitz and SoftBank to develop interoperable Web3 virtual spaces.

"We founded Improbable to make real the promise of incredible online worlds that were more than just games – they were extensions of our lives. I believe the metaverse and Web3 movement, though very early, represent a once-in-a-generation redefinition of our society towards a ‘fulfilment economy’ where experiences made by an open network of creators and businesses can create enormous opportunity for everyone. M² is our contribution to establishing this future and we hope to help our partners catalyse an open metaverse with many participants and success stories. We are excited to be actively working with some of the best investors in the space in building out this new ecosystem."
— Herman Narula, CEO
Series C
£140M

The London fintech platform raised the Series C round from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and existing investors to scale its operations globally.

"Our ambition is to democratize public market offerings through a combination of technology, data and advocacy. Our platform deepens the relationships public companies have with their stakeholders and helps them make their equity and debt offerings more inclusive"
— Anand Sambasivan, CEO and co-founder
£950M

The major funding round was led by SoftBank, Grupo Salinas, Qualcomm Technologies, and the Government of Rwanda to accelerate deployment of the satellite constellation.

"This latest funding round, our largest to date, makes OneWeb’s service inevitable and is a vote of confidence from our core investor base in our business model and the OneWeb value proposition,"
— Adrian Steckel, CEO