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SoftBank Group
ActiveOperating status — whether the company still runs independently. “Closed” usually means it was acquired, merged, or shut down.🔥 HighHeat score — how much recent activity & attention the company has (web traffic, news, hiring).📈 High growthGrowth score — momentum trend across web traffic, headcount and other growth signals. Tokyo, Japan Founded 1981 10001+ employees For Profit
SoftBank Group is a holding company focused on artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
SoftBank Group on Acquirezy — acquisitions, funding rounds, investments, investors, key people & contacts.
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SoftBank Group was acquired by Foxconn Technology Group in 2016 for $600M.
Last Funding
Acquisitions
2
Investments
319
134 exits
Monthly Visits
Contacts
27
About SoftBank Group
Funding & Financials
- Total funding
- Funding rounds
- Last funding
- Last funding type
- Last funding date
- Funding status
- Total equity funding
- Revenue range
IPO & Stock
- IPO status
- Private
Web Traffic
- Monthly visits
- Global traffic rank
- 6-mo avg visits
- Visit duration (s)
- Pages / visit
- Bounce rate
- Rank change (mo)
Investor Activity
- Investor type
- Private Equity Firm
- Investments
- 319
- Lead investments
- 121
- Portfolio orgs
- 224
- Diversity investments
- 47
- Exits
- 134
- Exits via IPO
- 39
- Investment stages
- Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Company Info
- Founded
- 1981
- Employees
- 10001+
- Operating status
- Active
- Company type
- For Profit
- Org types
- company, investor
- Sub-organizations
- 1
- News articles
- 2,672
- HQ
- Tokyo, Japan
- Region
- Asia-Pacific (APAC)
- Exit date
- Feb 27, 2016
Signals & Scores
- Heat score
- High
- Growth score
- High
- Trend (7d)
- 1.3
- Trend (30d)
- -0.6
- Trend (90d)
- -1.3
- Last leadership hire
- Jun 22, 2022
- Last layoff mention
- Dec 20, 2025
SoftBank Group Investments
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SoftBank Group Acquisitions
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| Acquiree Name | Acquirer Name | Acquisition Type | Acquisition Terms | Acquiree Industries | Acquiree Hq City | Acquiree Hq Country | Acquiree Description | Acquiree Number Of Employees | Acquirer Industries | Acquirer Hq Country | Acquirer Number Of Employees | Acquirer Ipo Status | Acquiree Website | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balyo | — | 2024-11-20 | SoftBank Group | Acquisition | — | ManufacturingRobotics | Ivry-sur-seine | France | Balyo designs, develops and markets totally innovative handl… | 2005-01-01 | 51-100 | Artificial Intelligence (AI)FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileRisk ManagementSoftware | Japan | 10001+ | Private | 2 | www.balyo.com | |
| Berkshire Grey | $375M | 2023-03-24 | SoftBank Group | Merger | Cash | Artificial Intelligence (AI)Industrial AutomationRoboticsSoftware | Bedford | United States | Berkshire Grey develops a materials handling system intended… | — | — | Artificial Intelligence (AI)FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileRisk ManagementSoftware | Japan | 10001+ | Private | 2 | www.berkshiregrey.com |
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SoftBank Group Key People
Managing Partner
Vice Chairman
Partner
Corporate Officer, Senior Vice President, CSusO Head of Accounting Unit
Vice President
Investor
Associate
Latam Operations Team
Investor
Director Of Government Affairs
27
professional contacts at SoftBank Group
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