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SoftBank Faces Record Loss as Masayoshi Son’s Bets Tumble Again
(Bloomberg) — Billionaire Masayoshi Son is poised to set another record — and not the good kind. When he reports earnings for the March quarter Thursday, SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund...
SoftBank Ventures Asia Leads $5.8 Million Investment In Korean Autonomous Shipping Startup
COURTESY OF SEADRONIX SoftBank Ventures Asia, the venture arm of Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group, led a $5.8 million round in South Korean autonomous navigation startup Seadronix, ...
Fanatics adds SoftBank executive, ex-Airbnb marketing chief to board
A detailed photo of the Fanatics apparel displayed at NFL Hospitality during the 2018 NFL Annual Meetings at the Ritz Carlton Orlando, Great Lakes on March 26, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Mark Brown | G...
SoftBank leads $60M CertiK raise as demand for Web3 security grows
Blockchain security firm CertiK has raised $60 million in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund II and Tiger Global, further cementing its unicorn status after raising a combined $290 million over nine mo...
CertiK Closes $60 Million Funding Round from SoftBank Following $88M Series B3
CertiK – a Web 3 and blockchain security firm – has secured an additional $60 million investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global. This follows the firm’s $2 billion valuation last month, ...
Prominent Audit Firm CertiK Raises $60M Funds From SoftBank
5 hours ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News Blockchain security services have been a significant focus for venture capitalists. CertiK wants to make its security audits and verification solutions accessibl...
SoftBank’s $100 Billion May Get Dwarfed By Tokyo’s $1.6 Trillion Fund
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged to open a path for the Government Pension … [+] Investment Fund to invest support the country’s startups. KIYOSHI OTA/POOL/AFP via Ge...
DeFi infrastructure firm bloXroute raises $70M Series B led by SoftBank
BloXroute, a crypto firm that provides tools for DeFi trading, has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Other investors included Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi Capi...
Blockchain startup, bloXroute Raises $70 million in Series B Round Led By SoftBank Vision
Image: BloXroute Decentralized Finance (DeFi) company, bloXroute, has successfully completed a $70 million Series B funding round to boost the development of its blockchain distribution network. Annou...
Former SoftBank CEO Devotes 10% of His Portfolio to Bitcoin (BTC)
Marcelo Claure, the former chief executive of SoftBank, says he now devotes 10% of his entire holdings to Bitcoin (BTC). During a panel discussion at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference, Claure argues that go...
Fmr. SoftBank CEO Marcelo Claure Allocates 10% Of Wealth To Crypto
Speaking at the Bitcoin Miami Conference 2022, former SoftBank CEO Marcelo Claure announced the allocation of 10% of its wealth into crypto. Specifically, the former SoftBank executive will put a port...
SoftBank liquidates most of portfolio at ‘Nasdaq whale’ trading unit
SoftBank has liquidated almost all of the positions in its abortive internal hedge fund SB Northstar after racking up between $6bn and $7bn in losses in the unit behind the notorious “Nasdaq whale” tr...
SoftBank Leads $65 Million Funding Round of Digits
Finance and accounting platform for small businesses, Digits recently confirmed that it has closed its $65 million Series C funding round led by SoftBank. With recent funding, the company has reached ...
Roofstock valued at $1.9 billion with new funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund
advertisement Digital real estate platform Roofstock closed a $240 million Series E equity financing round, achieving a valuation of $1.94 billion. The Roofstock platform enables the $4 trillion fragm...
As Competition To Automate Warehouses Heats Up, RightHand Robotics Raises $66 Million
RightHand Robotics cofounder and CEO Yaro Tenzer: “When we started people were like, ‘Yeah, that’s in the future.'” Courtesy of RightHand Robotics Warehouse automation has beco...
Alibaba Jumps as SoftBank Denies Involvement in Stock Filing
(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares jumped in Hong Kong as SoftBank Group Corp. said it wasn’t involved in the Chinese tech giant’s filing of additional American depositary shares, a...
India’s ElasticRun Becomes Unicorn With $300 Million Funding Round Led By SoftBank
Kirana shops in rural India which ElasticRun is targeting for collaboration with big brands and … [+] e-commerce firms. getty SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a $300 million investment in Pune-headqua...
Nvidia Abandons Plans To Acquire ARM Amid Regulatory Pressure, British Chipmaker Will Explore IPO
Topline Graphics chipmaker Nvidia scrapped its plans to acquire British semiconductor firm ARM due to “significant regulatory challenges”, the companies announced on Tuesday, a decision that comes two...
NVIDIA and SoftBank Terminate NVIDIA’s Acquisition of Arm Limited
SoftBank Group, a leading multinational conglomerate holding company, and NVIDIA, a public-listed American multinational technology firm, recently announced the termination of the agreement regarding ...
Softbank backed startup to offer retail crypto trading
Stock brokerage firm DriveWealth has entered the cryptocurrency industry by launching two subsidiaries designed to allow its partners to offer crypto trading to retail investors. DriveWealth is a New...
Polygon Raises $450 Million From Sequoia Capital India, Softbank, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’leary – Finance Bitcoin News
The blockchain project Polygon announced it has raised $450 million on Monday in a fundraising round led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from more than 40 venture capital firms. Polygon sa...
Alibaba Falls as Stock Filing Seen as Sign of SoftBank Sale
(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares dropped 6.1% in U.S. trading on Monday after Citigroup Inc. analysts saw its additional American depositary share registration in the U.S. as a si...
Blockchain project Aleo raises $200M from SoftBank, Tiger, and others
Aleo, a blockchain project focused on privacy through zero-knowledge-proof technology, has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Kora Management co-led the round,...
Rumor That SoftBank To Sell Alibaba Stake Weighs On China Internet
China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were mixed overnight as China, Singapore, and Indonesia outperformed while India and the Philippines underperformed. Citi’s internet analyst is rep...
Polygon raises $450M from SoftBank, Tiger, and others in a token sale
Ethereum scaling project Polygon has raised $450 million in a private token sale. Sequoia Capital India led Polygon’s fundraise, with more than 40 other investors participating, including SoftBa...
Alibaba SEC Filing May Signal SoftBank Plans to Sell, Citi Says
(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. registered one billion American depositary shares that hadn’t been registered before, suggesting SoftBank Group Corp. may intend to sell some of its shar...
SoftBank Leads $60M Funding Round for B2B Payments Platform Tribal
Tribal Credit, a business-to-business payments and financing platform for emerging markets, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund, with participation fr...
Berkshire, SoftBank Early Paytm Bets Sour After Stock Rout
(Bloomberg) — The collapse in the shares of Paytm following India’s largest initial public offering is proving an expensive lesson for the firm’s early backers. Most Read from Bloomberg Paytm sh...