Wag, the pet care tech company reportedly valued at ~$650M after a $300M investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in January 2018, filed for bankruptcy on July 21
It's a huge $300M miss for Softbank, but I guess when you count Alibaba, ARM, Uber, DoorDash, and ByteDance among your hits you can afford to look silly when the dog-walking one flops Mastodon: Dare O...
Cybereason CEO Eric Gan sues investors Steven Mnuchin and SoftBank Vision Fund, alleging they put Cybereason at risk of bankruptcy by blocking fundraising plans
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Thoughts on OpenAI's fundraise reports and how Apple reportedly backing out may lead to Microsoft giving OpenAI money to pay Microsoft for Apple's ChatGPT usage
what you need to know The Information : SoftBank to Invest $500 Million in OpenAI Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News : SoftBank Vision Fund to invest $500M in OpenAI at $150B valuation Niklas Jan Eng...
As SoftBank Vision Fund managing partners Yanni Pipilis and Munish Varma leave, the fund has lost 10+ top execs since 2020, putting pressure on Masayoshi Son
Masayoshi Son is losing a growing number of top executives at SoftBank Group Corp., putting more responsibility on the founder's shoulders … Tweets: @caixin , @pelstrom , and @athomson6 Tweets: @caixi...
Cruise raises $1.35B more from SoftBank Vision Fund and launches a waitlist for a driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco that will run from 11pm to 5am
Cruise is opening up its driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco as the GM subsidiary creeps toward commercialization …
Analysis: Tiger Global, SoftBank, and Insight Partners led or co-led rounds totaling $73B in 2021, representing 12% of all venture and PE invested in startups
Tiger Global Management, SoftBank Vision Fund and Insight Partners aren't traditional venture capital investors … Tweets: @hkanji and @robjebert Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : For every week in 202...
Sources say Masayoshi Son's profit-sharing plan for Vision Fund employees is contributing to a stream of defections, because it is based primarily on seniority
Ever since billionaire investor Masayoshi Son set up the giant Vision Fund in 2017 to provide backing for technology startups … Tweets: @gilliantan and @pelstrom Tweets: Gillian Tan / @gilliantan : So...
SoftBank Vision Fund's sole senior managing partner, Deep Nishar, says he will leave by the end of 2021 after six years at the fund
Pantheon, which offers SaaS tools for websites to manage marketing and revenue, raises $100M Series E from SoftBank Vision Fund at a $1B+ valuation
WebOps SaaS platform Pantheon, which started out as a Drupal and WordPress hosting service many years ago, today announced that it has raised …
Enterprise data storage startup Cohesity announces an employee share tender offer totaling $145M, valuing the company at $3.7B, up from $2.5B last year
- Data management business launches $145 million tender offer — SoftBank Vision Fund doubling down on Cohesity investment