SoftBank Group
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Focusshare of its companies
Advertising 50%Digital Marketing 50%Processors, MCUs & AI Chips 50%Enterprise Storage Systems 50%
Where its companies are
Slovenia 50%
Stage of its companies
Venture, series not stated 50%Series C and later 50%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 2 investments
1 open roles at 1 of its companies 
Sources: 2 rounds in the press that name it
Overview
SoftBank Group is a Japanese holding company founded by Masayoshi Son in 1981, which began distributing packaged software and became one of the most consequential technology investors in the world. It owns the chip designer Arm, the Japanese telecoms operator SoftBank Corp, the payments platform PayPay and stakes across hundreds of technology companies through the Vision Funds. The group is defined by very large concentrated bets, from the early investment in Alibaba to the acquisition of Arm and its central role in funding OpenAI and the Stargate data centre programme.
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ASI and SoftBank Group Form Joint Venture to Advance Autonomous Construction at Scale
MENDON, Utah, September 24, 2026--Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI), the worldwide leader of industrial vehicle automation and creator of Mobius, the platform that defined Industrial Autonomous Fleet Orchestration (IAFO), has formed a joint venture with So
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SoftBank Group's 1.7 Trillion Yen: An Anatomy of Junk Bond and AI Investment Financingtakeshi_moneysupport
IntroductionSoftBank Group has made another major move. Immediately after NVIDIA announced an additional investment in SB Energy, SBG embarked on a 1.7 trillion yen junk bond issuance, one of the largest in the company's history. Furthermore, they have in
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SoftBank Group Theoretical Stock Price 5943 Yen: Gap with 50% Benchmark Shrinks to 372 Yen as Arm Continues to Riseアセットアライブ
Wednesday, September 23, 2026Arm Holdings (ARM) closed at $333.20 in the U.S. market on September 22, up $10.30 or 3.19% from the previous day. Reflecting the rise following the previous day's 17.16% surge, the NAV theoretical stock price of SoftBank Grou
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Softbank Group gets upsized $11.9 billion loan in OpenAI funding push
The Japanese conglomerate sealed the two-year facility last week, attracting commitments from around 20 banks
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SoftBank Group says $5 trillion a year needed globally to meet AI demand The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Worries about a bubble inartificial intelligenceinvestments are absurd, SoftBank Group's CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday, deriding such doubts as backward and akin to questioning the use of cars and planes.
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OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank expand Stargate with five new AI data center sites
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are announcing five new U.S. AI data center sites under Stargate, OpenAI's overarching AI infrastructure platform.
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SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing
(TOKYO, Japan) and (Santa Clara, CA) - SoftBank Group Corp. (TSE: 9984,
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Stargate
Stargate is the AI data centre programme SoftBank is funding alongside OpenAI and Oracle. It represents the group's largest infrastructure commitment to date.
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PayPay
PayPay is Japan's dominant QR code payment application, built by SoftBank with Paytm technology. It has tens of millions of users and an expanding financial services range.
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Corp
SoftBank Corp is the group's Japanese telecommunications operator, covering mobile, broadband and enterprise services. It is a separately listed subsidiary.
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Arm
Arm is the chip architecture company SoftBank acquired in 2016 and partially relisted in 2023. Its designs are in the overwhelming majority of the world's smartphones.
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Vision Fund
The Vision Funds are the group's technology investment vehicles, which deployed over a hundred billion dollars across late-stage companies. They reshaped private market valuations across a decade.
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People
Masayoshi Son
Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank in 1981 and has run it ever since, making some of the largest and most concentrated technology bets in history. His early stake in Alibaba remains the most profitable venture investment ever made.
Yoshimitsu Goto
Chief Financial Officer
Yoshimitsu Goto leads SoftBank Group's finance organisation and its complex funding structures. He joined the company in 2000 and has managed its debt and asset monetisation programmes.
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Tokyo
Japan
HQ
5000+ est. staff
Financials
Total raised
$11.9B
Latest round
Debt Financing
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debt Financing | 2026 | $11.9B | Details |