In 2017, the investment amount of Softbank Vision Fund will increase by 10 times

The 2017 Softbank Vision Fund acts like a super-large venture capital fund focusing on post-trading, investing in more than $ 20 billion in various private equity or growth stages since January, about the entire US venture capital investment One-fourth of the market.

According to Techcrunch analysts pointed out that venture capitalists compete for capital large-scale enterprises, but in the case of successful new supply is limited, a substantial increase in investment funds will lead to asset bubbles, and Softbank investment in the test limit, SoftBank launched in 2017 44 Financing a total of 30.7 billion US dollars, most of which funds from Softbank 2016-2017, Softbank total investment increased by about 10 times.

Softbank-led investments are focused on companies that already have billions of dollars in valuations, and have already had extensive infrastructure and market share, including WeWork, an office rental startup, and a drop-in car sharing service with Grab, as well as businesses Slack, a start-up for collaboration platforms, also invests in early and mid-term companies, often investing several times as much in fundraising in the first few rounds of startups such as Leading C-suite financing for leading insurance startup Lending 120 million USD, three times more than the B series of the same period last year.

Softbank pays close attention to the United States. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son firmly believes in the U.S. ability to innovate in science and technology. As a result, the United States is the country with the most newly founded Softbank investments. Softbank's largest private sector also invests in the United States, including WeWork, Fanatics and SoFi. In other countries In the area, it includes drip travel from mainland China, Grab in Singapore, Ola in India and Improbable in the United Kingdom.

Softbank Aimed at Startups in Early Enterprising Enrichment for New Startup Companies, Like 3-Year-Old Silicon Valley Agriculture Plenty Raise $ 200 Million in Series B Funding from SoftBank in July, after Plenty Raised $ 26 Million in Seeds And A series of capital, although a good start, but with Softbank's investment of 200 million US dollars is enough to develop a mature business expansion strategy.

Premature scaling has been identified as the primary reason for the eventual failure of startups, but aside from SoftBank, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has also embarked on a bold investment plan.

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