SoftBank

SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational investment holding company founded in 1981 and headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, operating as a global technology conglomerate with activities spanning investment management, telecommunications, internet services, artificial intelligence, smart robotics, IoT, and renewable energy. Through its flagship SoftBank Vision Fund and related investment vehicles, the group manages well over $100 billion in capital, making it one of the world’s largest technology-focused investment platforms, backing hundreds of high-growth companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ride-hailing, logistics, semiconductors, and enterprise software, and becoming one of the most active investors in unicorn-stage startups globally. In addition to its investment operations, SoftBank controls SoftBank Corp., a major Japanese telecommunications operator providing mobile and fixed-line services, and maintains strategic stakes in companies such as Arm and other digital infrastructure assets, including a planned acquisition of DigitalBridge Group as part of a broader push into AI-related infrastructure like data centers, fiber networks, and wireless assets. The company is led by founder, Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son, whose long-term vision of an “Information Revolution” underpins SoftBank’s strategy of concentrating capital in disruptive, AI-enabled business models, accepting higher short-term volatility in pursuit of outsized, long-duration returns from category-defining technology platforms