SoftBank Robotics Europe

SoftBank Robotics Europe, formerly Aldebaran Robotics, designs and manufactures humanoid robots for education, research, health, distribution, tourism, business applications, and home use. The company serves customers worldwide and focuses on interactive robotics that assist professionals and individuals. Founded in 2005, it is based in Paris, France, with additional offices in France, Japan, the United States, and China, and operates as a subsidiary of SoftBank Group.

Karim Abouzahr

Director, SoftBank Europe Ventures

Kristin Bannon

Investment Director, SoftBank Investment Advisers

Jonathan Bullock

COO and Managing Director

John Cassidy

Investment Director, Life Sciences and HealthTech

Tom Cheung

Partner, Americas

Serena Dayal

Partner, Americas

Angela Du

Partner, Americas

Colin Fan

Managing Partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers

Ted Fike

Director, Americas

Ronald Fisher

Vice Chairman

Kunihiro Fujinaga

Managing Executive Officer

Navneet Govil

Managing Partner, CFO

Ayush Jain

Investment Vice President

Lydia Jett

Managing Partner

Sumer Juneja

Managing Partner and Head of EMEA and India Investing

Robert Kaplan

Partner, Americas

Gosia Karas

Investor

Eylul Kayin

Vice President

Chris Lee

Partner, Asia

Anna Lo

Director, Americas

Amit Lubovsky

Investor

Jimi Macdonald

Director

Makizono Keiichi

Executive Officer and CIO

Kentaro Matsui

Managing Partner

Ken Miyauchi

Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President

Greg Moon

Executive Managing Partner

Karol Niewiadomski

Partner

Shu Nyatta

Managing Partner

Max Ohrstrand

Partner, EMEA

Vikas Parekh

Managing Partner

Ben Parton

Director of Deals and Transactions

Yanni Pipilis

Managing Partner

Narendra Rathi

Director, Asia

Faisal Rehman

Head of Operations, Middle East

Brett Rochkind

Managing Partner

Brett Rochkind

Managing Partner

Saleh Romeih

Senior Advisor

Priya Saiprasad

Partner

Masayoshi Son

Founder

Ram Trichur

Partner

Ervin Tu

Partner, Americas

Aaron Wong

Vice President

Tim Yap

Director, EMEA

Kenichi Yoshida

Chief Business Officer and Executive Vice President

Linda Yu

Vice President, Vision Fund

Andrew Zloto

Partner, Americas

Past deals in CEMEA

Wiz

Venture Round in 2024
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing enterprises with a platform that enables them to identify security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Wiz's innovative solution offers a comprehensive, cloud-native visibility tool that analyzes the entire cloud environment, delivering a 360-degree view of security risks across various platforms, including clouds, containers, and workloads. The platform utilizes actionable, graph-based analysis to facilitate in-depth risk assessment and root cause analysis without the need for agents, allowing organizations to enhance their security posture effectively.

Cato Networks

Venture Round in 2023
Cato Networks provides a cloud-based secure global SD-WAN and security platform that connects enterprise locations, remote users, and cloud data. The Cato Cloud integrates networking and security services, including WAN optimization, firewall, secure web gateway, threat protection, and UC optimization, delivered through a single management application. It eliminates branch appliances, reduces MPLS costs, and provides secure Internet access everywhere, enabling seamless integration of mobile users and cloud data centers into the WAN and simplifying site deployment and overall network security for distributed, mobile, and cloud-enabled enterprises.

AMEA Power

Venture Round in 2023
AMEA Power is a company focused on the development, ownership, and operation of renewable energy projects, aiming to facilitate the transition to clean energy. It operates a diverse portfolio that includes thermal, wind, solar, battery storage, ammonia, and water desalination plants. By providing a variety of power solutions, AMEA Power seeks to support economic development and enhance living standards, particularly in emerging markets across Africa and other regions. The company is committed to delivering reliable and sustainable energy to meet the needs of the communities it serves, contributing to both environmental sustainability and economic growth.

Rimac Group

Series D in 2022
Rimac Group, based in Sveta Nedelja, Croatia, specializes in the design, development, and manufacturing of electric vehicles and advanced automotive components. The company produces high-performance electric hypercars and a variety of electric vehicle components, including drivetrains, battery systems, and infotainment systems. Rimac Group also offers extensive engineering solutions, such as concept design, production strategy development, and quality control. In addition to manufacturing, the company provides prototyping services and the conversion of internal combustion engines to electric or hybrid powertrains. Founded in 2009, Rimac Group has established a strategic partnership with Hyundai Motor, further enhancing its capabilities in the automotive sector. The organization is driven by a passion for innovation and aims to redefine the electric vehicle landscape through cutting-edge technology and design.

Kitopi

Series C in 2022
Kitopi is a cloud kitchen platform that enables restaurants to operate delivery-only locations with minimal capital expenditure. Founded in 2018, it manages over 60 kitchens across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

Rapid

Series D in 2022
Rapid Software Solutions Ltd. is a technology company based in Haifa, Israel, specializing in software applications and Software-as-a-Service solutions. The firm is known for its RapidAPI Hub, which is the largest API hub globally, allowing over 4 million developers to discover, evaluate, and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from prominent providers. Rapid also offers a comprehensive development platform called RapidAPI Studio, enabling developers to design, develop, test, monitor, and publish their APIs seamlessly. For enterprise clients, the company provides RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a customizable platform that facilitates the management and connection of both internal and external APIs. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Rapid aims to support modern developers by streamlining access to essential API resources.

Apollo Agriculture

Series B in 2022
Apollo Agriculture, established in 2015, is a Kenyan agtech company with a presence in Nairobi. It specializes in providing smallholder farmers with access to critical farming inputs, financing, and advisory services. The company leverages agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile technology to assess credit risk and tailor financial and technical assistance to each farmer's unique needs and location. This approach aims to enhance farm yields and profitability in emerging markets, with a focus on Kenya.

OurCrowd

Private Equity Round in 2021
OurCrowd, established in 2013, is a global venture investing platform headquartered in Israel. It specializes in connecting accredited investors with curated, high-quality early-stage companies across various sectors, including healthcare, technology, energy, and transportation. OurCrowd invests in and supports its portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle, providing mentorship, industry connections, and follow-on funding opportunities. It is the most active venture investor in Israel and has a strong presence in the United States and other global markets.

Andela

Series E in 2021
Andela is a technology company that recruits, screens, trains, and manages software developers for organizations worldwide. Through its AI-powered talent platform, Andela Talent Cloud, it enables clients to hire individual engineers or fully managed teams with rapid onboarding and flexible engagement models, often at lower cost and faster delivery than traditional hiring. The company handles the groundwork for global staffing, including recruitment, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and ongoing talent management, allowing clients to scale engineering capacity as needed. Andela maintains a diverse, geographically distributed network of developers across numerous countries, with emphasis on Africa and other emerging markets. Its expertise spans application development, artificial intelligence, cloud and DevOps, data engineering, and related fields. Andela serves a range of customers from startups to established brands, helping them accelerate project delivery and access top technology talent.

StreamElements

Series B in 2021
StreamElements is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2016. It specializes in developing a web-based platform tailored for live content creators, offering tools for monetization, audience management, and community growth. The platform allows creators to display unblockable ads, collect donations, and reward viewers with loyalty points. Key features include a stream dashboard, overlay manager, chat statistics, leaderboard, spam filters, and custom stream pages. StreamElements also facilitates revenue generation through viewer purchases using currency earned by watching streams. Additionally, the company provides cloud-based overlays, alerts, chatbots, loyalty programs, sponsorships, and brand-safe moderation services. It supports creators across various platforms like Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok, connecting them with brands for performance marketing campaigns.

OPay

Series C in 2021
OPay operates a mobile payment service and consumer platform that enables users to send and receive money, pay bills, and order food and groceries. The platform provides secure, easy-to-use financial services with a fast user experience and incentive packages on transfers, airtime, and data top-ups, allowing users to manage payments and transactions from one app. It serves as a comprehensive, mobile-first platform for payments, transportation, food and grocery delivery, and other everyday services, focusing on accessibility and convenience for users in Nigeria.

Trendyol

Private Equity Round in 2021
Founded in 2010, Trendyol is a leading Turkish e-commerce company offering a wide range of fashion products, including clothing, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, and home decorations. With over 2000 employees, it aims to provide customers with a seamless shopping experience driven by technology.

Kitopi

Series C in 2021
Kitopi is a cloud kitchen platform that enables restaurants to operate delivery-only locations with minimal capital expenditure. Founded in 2018, it manages over 60 kitchens across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

Zeta

Series C in 2021
Zeta is a fintech company based in Bengaluru, India, established in 2015, that specializes in streamlining corporate payments and employee gifting. The company offers a range of digital solutions, including tax benefits for employees, rewards and recognition programs, and automated cafeteria services. Its flagship product, Zeta Tax Benefits, is a cloud-based suite designed to digitize various tax-saving reimbursements such as mobile, fuel, and gadget reimbursements, as well as gift cards and leave travel allowances. By providing these digitized solutions, Zeta aims to enhance employee engagement and facilitate HR managers in recognizing and appreciating employees effectively. Additionally, Zeta's rewards and recognition platform offers diverse gifting and incentive options tailored to meet the needs of employees, channel partners, and vendors.

Formlabs

Series E in 2021
Formlabs designs and manufactures professional 3D printing systems and materials for engineers, designers, educators, and manufacturers. The company offers high-resolution stereolithography printers such as Form 3, Form 3B, and Form 3L, along with post-processing equipment Form Wash and Form Cure, and the SLS-based Fuse 1 printer. It develops in-house high-performance resins and materials used across industries including education, dentistry, healthcare, jewelry, and manufacturing. Its software ecosystem includes PreForm, which prepares models for printing, and Form Cell for automated manufacturing. Formlabs serves customers worldwide and maintains headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts with international offices. The company focuses on enabling designers and engineers to produce detailed, functional parts and complex geometries, expanding access to professional-grade 3D printing through scalable hardware, materials, and software solutions.

OneTrust

Series C in 2021
OneTrust develops a comprehensive technology platform for privacy management. It automates privacy impact assessments, data inventory mapping, consent management, subject rights requests, incident reporting, and vendor risk management. The platform enables businesses to comply with global data privacy regulations across various sectors and jurisdictions.

Trax

Series E in 2021
Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd. specializes in providing in-store execution solutions, focusing on image recognition technology that transforms mobile images into actionable insights for the retail sector. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, Trax serves tier-one manufacturers and channel partners both locally and internationally. Its innovative platform enables sales representatives to access detailed information about product availability, shelf share, pricing, and compliance swiftly through mobile devices. This technology enhances operational efficiency and effectiveness for consumer goods companies. Trax has established itself as a leader in computer vision solutions for the consumer packaged goods industry, partnering with various innovators in IoT technologies to capture retail realities. The company's clientele includes major global brands, and it operates offices across multiple regions, including APAC, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America.

PacBio

Post in 2021
Pacific Biosciences specializes in human, microbial, plant, and animal genomics, focusing on areas such as infectious disease research. The company designs and manufactures sequencing systems that address complex genetic challenges, utilizing its innovative single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing technology to detect biological processes in real time. Its product offerings include the PacBio RS II and Sequel Systems, which facilitate the monitoring and analysis of biochemical reactions at the single-molecule level, along with consumables like SMRT cells and various reagent kits. Customers range from research institutions and commercial laboratories to pharmaceutical and agricultural companies, with sales conducted through direct channels in North America and Europe, and distribution partners in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Pacific Biosciences continues to advance genomics research and applications.

One97 Communications

Series G in 2019
One97 Communications Limited is a mobile payments services company based in Noida, India, founded in 2000. It operates under the Paytm brand, offering a comprehensive range of mobile content and commerce services. The company provides digital goods and services, including top-ups, ticket bookings, hotel reservations, music, videos, games, and other mobile content. Additionally, One97 Communications is a leading provider of payment solutions for e-commerce merchants, utilizing its RBI-approved semi-closed wallet. With a workforce of over 4,500 employees, the company has a wide geographical footprint, with regional offices in major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata, as well as a global presence in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

One97 Communications

Series G in 2019
One97 Communications Limited is a mobile payments services company based in Noida, India, founded in 2000. It operates under the Paytm brand, offering a comprehensive range of mobile content and commerce services. The company provides digital goods and services, including top-ups, ticket bookings, hotel reservations, music, videos, games, and other mobile content. Additionally, One97 Communications is a leading provider of payment solutions for e-commerce merchants, utilizing its RBI-approved semi-closed wallet. With a workforce of over 4,500 employees, the company has a wide geographical footprint, with regional offices in major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata, as well as a global presence in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Kabbage

Debt Financing in 2019
Kabbage is a financial technology company that provides small businesses with automated access to working capital through a 100% online lending platform. The platform uses business data such as revenue, accounting data, transactions, shipping, and other sources to assess health and calculate credit lines in real time, enabling applications, approvals, and funding decisions in minutes. It offers ongoing lines of credit and a purchasing card tied to the account for point-of-sale payments, along with a mobile app for on-the-go access and management. Kabbage began serving online merchants and expanded to all small businesses, including brick-and-mortar customers, and licenses its data and technology to power lending for other organizations.

Airtel Africa

Private Equity Round in 2018
Airtel Africa is a telecommunications company offering mobile voice and data services across Nigeria, East Africa, and Francophone Africa. As of March 2020, it served approximately 110.6 million customers with prepaid/postpaid wireless voice, data communication services, and mobile money services.

Ping An Healthcare Management

Series A in 2018
Ping An Health has established a worldwide medical cooperation network and a customer service response system; both designed in order to provide group and individual customers with complete medical benefits, health care, and consultation services. Ping An Health has an advanced information management system which enables them to provide customers with 24-hour English/Chinese bilingual call services and emergency assistance services in major countries and regions around the world. Ping An Health was established on June 13, 2005 upon the approval of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) , as a professional health insurance company under Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd (otherwise referred to as “PAG”). The company, headquartered in Shanghai, has a registered capital worth of RMB 625 million. In August 2010, Ping An Health entered into a joint venture with Discovery, the largest health insurer in South Africa, which identified Discovery a strategic investor in to Ping An Group. With its global network, Ping An Health has an extensive business scope covering health insurance, accidental injury insurance, health insurance mandated by government, health consultation services, and health reinsurance.

Kabbage

Series F in 2017
Kabbage is a financial technology company that provides small businesses with automated access to working capital through a 100% online lending platform. The platform uses business data such as revenue, accounting data, transactions, shipping, and other sources to assess health and calculate credit lines in real time, enabling applications, approvals, and funding decisions in minutes. It offers ongoing lines of credit and a purchasing card tied to the account for point-of-sale payments, along with a mobile app for on-the-go access and management. Kabbage began serving online merchants and expanded to all small businesses, including brick-and-mortar customers, and licenses its data and technology to power lending for other organizations.

One97 Communications

Venture Round in 2017
One97 Communications Limited is a mobile payments services company based in Noida, India, founded in 2000. It operates under the Paytm brand, offering a comprehensive range of mobile content and commerce services. The company provides digital goods and services, including top-ups, ticket bookings, hotel reservations, music, videos, games, and other mobile content. Additionally, One97 Communications is a leading provider of payment solutions for e-commerce merchants, utilizing its RBI-approved semi-closed wallet. With a workforce of over 4,500 employees, the company has a wide geographical footprint, with regional offices in major Indian cities such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, and Kolkata, as well as a global presence in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Dome9 Security

Series C in 2017
Dome9 Security Ltd. is a Tel Aviv-based company that specializes in a SaaS platform aimed at enhancing security and compliance within public cloud infrastructure environments. Founded in 2010, Dome9's platform enables businesses to visualize and assess their security posture across various cloud services, particularly Amazon Web Services. It offers tools to remediate potential threats, enforce security policies, and streamline network data management without the need for complicated agent deployments. The company also provides identity and access management solutions to safeguard against vulnerabilities and unauthorized access. Additionally, Dome9 features advanced capabilities such as threat intelligence and event correlation through its Dome9 Magellan product. In 2018, Dome9 became a subsidiary of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., augmenting its expertise and resources in the cloud security domain.

InMobi

Venture Round in 2014
InMobi is a mobile advertising company that develops a platform and services to help brands reach consumers on mobile devices. The company provides an advertising serving algorithm to optimize ad ranking and offers campaign management from strategy and design to execution and optimization, including ad creation and targeting. It delivers monetization strategies that blend performance and branding for publishers, along with near real-time reporting and campaign tracking. Its Lifetime Value Platform identifies in-app user groups and provides behavioral insights to publishers and app developers. InMobi also supports personalized, video-based advertising through deep learning optimization engines and contextual recommendations. The company maintains partnerships and operates from its headquarters in Bengaluru, India, with additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai. By combining technology and data-driven insights, InMobi helps advertisers and publishers optimize ad delivery and measurement across mobile environments.

Kabbage

Series D in 2014
Kabbage is a financial technology company that provides small businesses with automated access to working capital through a 100% online lending platform. The platform uses business data such as revenue, accounting data, transactions, shipping, and other sources to assess health and calculate credit lines in real time, enabling applications, approvals, and funding decisions in minutes. It offers ongoing lines of credit and a purchasing card tied to the account for point-of-sale payments, along with a mobile app for on-the-go access and management. Kabbage began serving online merchants and expanded to all small businesses, including brick-and-mortar customers, and licenses its data and technology to power lending for other organizations.

InMobi

Series C in 2011
InMobi is a mobile advertising company that develops a platform and services to help brands reach consumers on mobile devices. The company provides an advertising serving algorithm to optimize ad ranking and offers campaign management from strategy and design to execution and optimization, including ad creation and targeting. It delivers monetization strategies that blend performance and branding for publishers, along with near real-time reporting and campaign tracking. Its Lifetime Value Platform identifies in-app user groups and provides behavioral insights to publishers and app developers. InMobi also supports personalized, video-based advertising through deep learning optimization engines and contextual recommendations. The company maintains partnerships and operates from its headquarters in Bengaluru, India, with additional offices in New Delhi and Mumbai. By combining technology and data-driven insights, InMobi helps advertisers and publishers optimize ad delivery and measurement across mobile environments.

JNJ Mobile

Venture Round in 2010
JNJ Mobile, Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a mobile social community designed to connect users through gaming and social interaction. Founded in 2005, the company provides a platform that allows individuals to play games, make friends, and engage with others using web-enabled mobile devices, including iPhones, Android smartphones, and tablets. In addition to its headquarters in Boston, JNJ Mobile has an office in Herzliya, Israel. The platform aims to create an engaging community experience for users, facilitating new connections and interactions through social games and applications.

Insightix

Series B in 2007
Insightix Ltd. provides security intelligence and control solutions in Israel. It offers Business Security Assurance Suite, which is designed to detect, identify, profile, audit, and control various devices connected to client’s network; Business Security Assurance Visibility, which delivers the information necessary to properly manage and secure the enterprise network and the business of information technology; Business Security Assurance Security Configuration Management, which provides an automated way to audit the security configuration of client devices by measuring their level of compliance with internal and external policies; Business Security Assurance Security Network Access Control, which provides way to control access to the enterprise network; and Business Security Assurance Guest Network Access, which provides a way to offer guest network access while maintaining the security of client’s internal network. The company also provides compliance, management, security, and virtualization solutions. Insightix Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is based in Ra'anana, Israel.

The NewsMarket

Series C in 2005
The NewsMarket, Inc. is a web-based video marketing and distribution platform that connects brands, government agencies, and non-profit organizations to international media. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in New York, the company offers a diverse range of content including videos, audios, and images across various categories such as aerospace, automotive, education, entertainment, health care, and technology. The platform enables clients to effectively market and share their video content with media outlets, blogs, and online communities, thereby extending the reach of their messages. In addition to content distribution, The NewsMarket specializes in managing online newsrooms and delivering live interviews and event broadcasts. With a global presence that includes offices in cities such as Beijing, London, and Singapore, The NewsMarket has positioned itself as a key player in the digital marketing landscape.

CyberArk Software

Series B in 2002
CyberArk Software is a cybersecurity company specializing in identity and privileged access security. Founded in 1999 by Udi Mokady and headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, it serves customers in more than 65 countries through offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The company focuses on privileged access management, offering market-leading solutions that protect high-value information assets, infrastructure, and applications by preventing threat escalation. It counts a substantial portion of Fortune 500 companies among its customers and has approximately 9,000 clients across industries. In recent years, CyberArk has moved from traditional on-premises licenses to a subscription, recurring-revenue model, aligning with broader shifts in the cybersecurity market toward ongoing service delivery.

Hotvoice.com

Venture Round in 2000
Hotvoice.com is a telecommunications technology services company. The company offers subscription-based unified messaging services in North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. It provides carrier communications solutions integrating wireless email and instant messaging, presence-based call control, and outlook integration for wireless and WAP-enabled devices. The company’s solutions include enterprise-instant communication solutions such as one-to-one and one-to-many; communication services based on individual presence detection and device availability; integration and management of enterprise communication resources such as PBX, wireless devices, corporate messaging, and desktop productivity tools; event- and user preference-driven communications routing; and user-defined update of communication availability and call control via multiple devices. Hotvoice.com was founded in 1997 and is based in Mountain View, California, United States.

AllAdvantage

Venture Round in 2000
As of January 2001, AllAdvantage Inc. went out of business. AllAdvantage.com, Inc. operates as an Internet advertising company. It pays its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits. The company also allows members to receive membership benefits that include sponsor discounts and rebates for surfing the Web. In addition, it provides incentives for advertisers to build one-on-one relationships with its members. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Hayward, California with additional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Hayward, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, and Washington DC.

PeoplePC

Venture Round in 1999
PeoplePC, Inc. specializes in providing dial-up Internet connectivity services primarily to corporations, membership organizations, portals, and online content providers. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company offers a range of additional services, including web mail with spam control, email virus protection, and technical support. PeoplePC also provides security features such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and phishing protection solutions. As of July 30, 2002, PeoplePC operates as a subsidiary of EarthLink Inc.
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