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SoftBank
Corporate venture · Founded 1981 · Active in 2026
SoftBank is a corporate venture based in Japan, founded in 1981. The page below shows 266 Power Law outcomes from SoftBank's portfolio — 194 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 5 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · UK. SoftBank ranks #33 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
SoftBank’s biggest exits.
SoftBank portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
SoftBank’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of SoftBank’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 41 companies where SoftBank is a named shareholder, worth about $121B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 41 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = SoftBank’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. SoftBank also appears inside investor groups in HomeLight, Perplexity, Plenty, Sierra, Tridge, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+56 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 266 SoftBank Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA138
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India19
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UK17
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China17
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Brazil14
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Mexico6
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Germany6
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France5
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Norway4
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Singapore4
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Spain4
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Israel2
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Fintech47
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eCommerce & Marketplaces35
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Transportation31
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Marketing23
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Biotech & Life Sciences20
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Other B2B Software18
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Health Tech & Medtech17
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AI15
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Other15
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Edtech13
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Cybersecurity12
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Robotics9
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Series B+191
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Series A10
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Seed1
SoftBank's 266 Power Law outcomes.
How does SoftBank stack up?
SoftBank in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere SoftBank's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
606 founders across the 266 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at SoftBank.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about SoftBank
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SoftBank on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about SoftBank
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning SoftBank — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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