SoftBank reports Q3 net profit of ~$1.6B, below est., and Vision Fund posts a ~$2.4B gain, after a ~$4.2B gain in its OpenAI investment helped it offset losses
SoftBank posted a $2.4 billion gain at its Vision Fund in the December quarter as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses in some of its other bets.
Filings: SoftBank increased its Nvidia stake to ~$3B in Q1 and bought ~$330M worth of TSMC stock; source: Vision Fund monetized almost $2B of assets in H1 2025
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SoftBank reports Q2 net income of ~$7.7B and a Vision Fund gain of ~$2.42B, driven by strong Indian IPOs and valuation gains in startups like Coupang and Didi
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Source: SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500M in OpenAI's latest funding round, SoftBank's first investment in OpenAI, which is raising $6.5B
SoftBank's Vision Fund has agreed to invest $500 million in OpenAI's latest funding round, which values the developer of ChatGPT …
SoftBank reports a $4.6B gain on its Vision Fund in the fiscal year to March 2024, the first gain since 2021, after ByteDance and DoorDash rose in value
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
SoftBank reports Q3 net profit of $6.4B, after four quarters of losses, lifted by a T-Mobile US shares windfall; the Vision Fund unit reported a ~$2.85B gain
Bloomberg :
SoftBank reports ~$426M profit for Vision Fund in Q1, up from a ~$16.4B loss in Q1 2022 and ~$30B in FY2022; Vision Fund invested $1.6B in Q1; Arm lost ~$66.4M
Bloomberg :
Saudi Arabia's PIF reports a $15.6B loss in 2022 after its Vision Fund and tech investments plunged; assets under management grew to $595.5B thanks to Aramco
- Softbank's fund saw a record loss of $32 billion in 2022 — Current estimates place the PIF's assets at $777 billion
Sources: SoftBank plans a new round of Vision Fund layoffs, impacting up to 30% of the staff at the unit; Vision Fund had 349 staff at the end of March 2023
Krystal Hu / Reuters :
SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B
SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate …