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Vision Fund

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137 articles decelerating

Vision Fund has appeared in 137 articles since 2017-01. Coverage peaked in 2022Q3 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, WeWork, Japanese.

Articles
137
mentions
Velocity
-50.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.500
velocity change
Sources
21
publications

Coverage Timeline

2023-08-19
Reuters 4 related

Sources: SoftBank acquired a 25% stake in Arm from its Vision Fund unit at a $64B valuation and plans to make the chip designer's IPO filing public on August 21

Anirban Sen / Reuters :

2023-03-02
Financial Times 7 related

Sources: Chinese officials have declined to process Arm China's transfer to a new Vision Fund entity, holding up Arm's plan to exit the joint venture

Unresolved restructuring looms over SoftBank's plans for blockbuster listing of UK chip designer  —  China is holding up Arm's plan …

2021-02-09
Bloomberg 2 related

SoftBank's Vision Fund hires Nagraj Kashyap, the head of Microsoft's M12 VC fund, as managing partner, its first major addition following a spate of departures

2020-11-14
TechCrunch 5 related

Sources: Uber has been in talks since October to sell its self-driving car unit, Advanced Technologies Group, to Aurora Innovation

Eighteen months ago, Uber's self-driving car unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment from Toyota, DENSO and Softbank's Vision Fund.

2020-08-25
Bloomberg 4 related

UK-based Aveva Group to buy industrial software maker Osisoft in a $5B deal; SoftBank's Vision Fund owns a 44.7% stake in Osisoft

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg :

2019-09-10
Financial Times 19 related

Sources: SoftBank urges WeWork to cancel IPO following cool reception from investors, amid fears it could affect SoftBank's Vision Fund fundraising efforts

SoftBank, the biggest outside shareholder in WeWork, is urging the lossmaking property group to shelve its hotly anticipated initial public offering …

2019-06-18
Axios

Collective Health, a San Francisco-based maker of employer health benefits management software, raises $205M Series E led by SoftBank's Vision Fund

Bob Herman / Axios :

2019-05-03
Wall Street Journal 4 related

Sources: SoftBank is considering an IPO for its $100B Vision Fund and is negotiating with the sultanate of Oman for an investment of several billion in the fund

Vision Fund staff hustles to keep up with frantic pace of deal making by CEO Masayoshi Son  —  SoftBank Group Corp …

2019-02-06
CNBC 3 related

SoftBank's Vision Fund says that it sold its entire stake in Nvidia, which was worth $3.63B on December 31, in January

Chipmaker Nvidia suffered another setback Wednesday after SoftBank's Vision Fund disclosed it had sold its entire stake, worth more than $3 billion, in the company in January.

2018-11-20
Reuters 3 related

SoftBank invests $2B in South Korean e-commerce company Coupang, source says at a ~$9B valuation

SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund is investing $2 billion in South Korea's top e-commerce firm Coupang, the retailer said on Tuesday, as the loss-making startup girds for battle against rivals backed ...

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Vision Fund has appeared in 304 Techmeme articles since January 2017. The biggest stories include Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's latest funding... and Revolut raises $800M Series E from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global at a.... Frequently covered alongside SoftBank, Vision Fund 2, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Masayoshi Son, and SoftBank Vision Fund. Coverage has shifted toward funding, consumer themes and away from competition.

Key Moments

2024Q2consumer -100pts; funding +33pts; regulation -33pts
2024Q3funding +67pts; regulation +33pts
2024Q4competition +50pts

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