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SoftBank-Backed Hiring Platform Fountain Earmarks ‘Significant’ Investment To Scale India Presence
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SoftBank-Backed Hiring Platform Fountain To Scale Up Hiring, Investmen...

Backed by marquee investors such as B Capital…
5th November, 2022
SoftBank Mulling Launching Vision Fund 3 To Invest In Startups: Report
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SoftBank Mulling Launching Vision Fund 3 To Invest In Startups

Amid mounting losses from its current two investment funds, global tech investor…
14th September, 2022
SoftBank India Head Sumer Juneja Gets Additional Charge, To Oversee EMEA Investments: Report
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SoftBank India Head Sumer Juneja Gets Additional Charge, To Oversee EM...

Amid exodus of top executives from the company, SoftBank Vision Fund’s India…
19th August, 2022
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Warns Of Longer Funding Winter For Unicorns Unwilling To Accept Cut In Valuation
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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Warns Of Longer Funding Winter For Unicorns U...

SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son, in the post-earnings calls for the quarter ending…
9th August, 2022
SoftBank To Now Offer Credit Funds To Tech Startups?
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SoftBank India Portfolio: Delhivery, Policybazaar In Green, Paytm Adds...

Japanese investment giant SoftBank, an active investor in Indian startups, reported the…
8th August, 2022
SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Quits To Launch Own Venture Fund
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SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Quits To Launch Own Venture Fund

SoftBank Investment Advisers’ CEO and the right hand of Masayoshi Son, Rajeev…
7th July, 2022
PM Modi Meets SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son
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PM Modi Meets Masayoshi Son To Discuss SoftBank’s Future Plans, Invest...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently in Japan on a two-day visit…
23rd May, 2022
D2C eyewear brand Lenskart has launched Lenskart Vision Fund wherein the company plans to invest up to $2 Mn in each of the selected startups that are synergistic to the eyewear, eye care and omnichannel retail sectors.
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Lenskart’s Thrasio Styled Venture Neso Brands Raises $100 Mn From KKR,...

Neso Brands, an eyewear-focussed, Thrasio-style startup backed by omnichannel eyewear unicorn Lenskart,…
16th May, 2022
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg
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Soft Layoffs: Better.com Gives Indian Employees ‘Voluntary Separation ...

The US-based homeownership company Better.com, led by founder and CEO Vishal Garg,…
16th May, 2022
Paytm-Backer SoftBank Slows Down Investment In Tech Startups; Likely To Affect Indian Funding Landscape
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Paytm-Backer SoftBank Slows Down Investment In Tech Startups; Likely T...

Masayoshi Son who leads SoftBank, one of the world’s largest investment funds,…
2nd April, 2022
Exclusive: ElasticRun Turns Unicorn With $300 Mn Funding From SoftBank, Goldman Sachs
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[Update] Exclusive: ElasticRun Turns Unicorn With $330 Mn Funding From...

Update| 17th February, 7:20 PM Almost 10 days after Inc42 had exclusively…
17th February, 2022
Polygon Lays Off 20% Of Its Workforce As Part Of Consolidation Process
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Polygon Raises $450 Mn From Sequoia, SoftBank, Tiger Global & Others...

Polygon PoS has seen a billion transactions recorded last year. More than 130 Mn...
8th February, 2022

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