Big rounds. Bigger valuations. That’s what SoftBank is known for, at least since it launched its massive tech-focused Vision Fund last year. Through the $98 billion Vision Fund and its other investment arms, the Japanese telecom giant has made headlines for taking a 15% stake in Uber, pouring $4.4 billion into WeWork and injecting $1.4 billion in Paytm.
But SoftBank also leads smaller deals and backs companies alongside other investors. We’ve taken a look at which firms co-invest in venture capital deals with SoftBank most often, using data from the PitchBook Platform. Lerer Hippeau holds the No. 1 spot by a long shot, in part because the VC firm was said to have taken over two of SoftBank Capital’s early-stage VC funds in 2015, a move that likely took place at least partly due to Eric Hippeau’s tenure as a managing partner at SoftBank Capital.
The interactive graphic below shows data on VC deals since 2010 in which SoftBank Group (including the Vision Fund), SoftBank Capital (the company’s CVC arm, active from 1995 to 2015) and SoftBank Ventures Korea have co-invested. We’ve ranked the list by number of co-investment deals. Click on each investor name to see its free profile, and click anywhere on each bar to see a detailed list of the deals each investor has participated in with SoftBank.
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