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...
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...
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 …
SoftBank-backed travel booking service Klook raises $200M led by Aspex Management, says bookings have reached near pre-COVID levels in Singapore, HK, and Taiwan
Klook, the Hong Kong-based travel activities platform backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, announced the closure of $200 million …
SoftBank Vision Fund records $17.7B loss in the last fiscal year after writing down investments including WeWork and Uber, reports a net loss of $8.96B
SoftBank Group Corp. said its Vision Fund business lost 1.9 trillion yen ($17.7 billion) last fiscal year after writing down the value of investments …
Sources: SoftBank Vision Fund has walked away from investing in several startups, months after submitting term sheets and saying closing delays were temporary
SoftBank Vision Fund has walked away from investing in several startups, months after submitting term sheets worth hundreds …
Sources: WeWork is considering seeking a valuation of ~$20B-$30B in its US IPO, marking a significant reduction from an earlier valuation of $47B
Data Sheet New York Times : WeWork Parent Considers Reducing Valuation Before I.P.O. Thomas Franck / CNBC : WeWork is dramatically slashing its IPO valuation to less than $25 billion because of weak d...
Kansas-based C2FO, which operates a enterprise-focused marketplace for working capital, raises $200M led by SoftBank Vision Fund
- Biggest round for C2FO with SoftBank's investment largest ever — Plans to use money to expand operations in India, China, Japan
Travel activities booking platform GetYourGuide raises $484M Series E at a $1B+ valuation led by SoftBank Vision Fund, says it has now sold 25M tickets
As we swing into the summer tourist season, a company poised to capitalise on that has raised a huge round of funding.