SoftBank Group

SoftBank Group is a multinational telecommunications and internet corporation based in Japan. It operates through four segments: mobile communications, Sprint, fixed-line telecommunications, and internet. The company provides a wide range of services, including mobile and fixed-line voice and data transmission services, broadband services, internet advertising, e-commerce, and digital television. SoftBank Group also invests in various technologies through its venture capital arms, such as SoftBank Investment Advisers and SoftBank Vision Fund, focusing on areas like artificial intelligence, robotics, and the Internet of Things. One of its notable subsidiaries, SoftBank Robotics, designs and manufactures humanoid robots for various applications, including education, healthcare, and business.

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

Navneet Govil

Managing Partner, CFO

Ayush Jain

Investment Vice President

Lydia Jett

Partner

Sumer Juneja

Managing Partner and Head of EMEA and India Investing

Robert Kaplan

Partner, Americas

Chris Lee

Partner, Asia

Anna Lo

Director, Americas

Amit Lubovsky

Director, Americas

Jimi Macdonald

Director

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, Americas

Ben Parton

Director of Deals and Transactions

Yanni Pipilis

Managing Partner

Narendra Rathi

Director, Asia

Brett Rochkind

Managing Partner

Masayoshi Son

Founder

Ram Trichur

Partner

Ervin Tu

Partner, Americas

Aaron Wong

Vice President

Kenichi Yoshida

Chief Business Officer and Executive Vice President

Linda Yu

Vice President, Vision Fund

Andrew Zloto

Partner, Americas

Tim Yap

Director, EMEA

Past deals in Market Research

AlphaSense

Series F in 2024
AlphaSense, Inc. is a market intelligence platform that specializes in information discovery for research professionals. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, the company has additional offices in London, Helsinki, Pune, and other locations. Its web-based platform aggregates and indexes financially relevant data from various sources, enabling users to conduct natural language searches for critical insights across filings, research, news, and other disclosures. The platform is designed to facilitate informed decision-making by providing users with the ability to set alerts, analyze data, and navigate complex information efficiently. AlphaSense serves nearly 2,000 enterprise clients, including a significant number of financial institutions and a majority of the S&P 500, who rely on its tools to drive their business decisions.

SilkChart

Seed Round in 2022
SilkChart is an innovative company that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance sales performance. Its primary focus is on providing sales coaching through advanced analytics of sales calls, enabling representatives to gain a deeper understanding of their clients and improve deal closure rates. By analyzing conversations, SilkChart equips sales teams with actionable feedback to improve communication, identify customer pain points, and tailor solutions to specific needs. Additionally, the company offers a no-code analytics platform that transforms product data into insights for revenue growth. This platform allows growth teams to integrate marketing and product usage data seamlessly, empowering them to optimize campaigns and target audiences more effectively without the need for costly data analytics expertise. SilkChart’s dual approach enhances sales strategies and drives business success by fostering better client relationships and informed decision-making.

Cortex Intelligence Tecnologia

Series C in 2022
Cortex Intelligence Tecnologia S.A. is a Brazilian company that specializes in developing and operating a data analytics platform aimed at enhancing sales and marketing effectiveness. Established in 2003 and headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, the company offers an insights platform that integrates users' internal data with a variety of external information sources, including market statistics, pricing, economic indices, social media, news articles, and governmental data. This robust platform allows clients to conduct both simple and complex analyses on demand, facilitating data-driven decision-making. By linking structured and unstructured data, Cortex Intelligence enables businesses across various sectors, including market research, retail, and trade intelligence, to optimize sales strategies and achieve their marketing objectives through informed actions.

Fetch

Series E in 2022
Fetch Rewards, LLC operates a mobile application that enables users to scan their grocery receipts from various retail outlets, including grocery, convenience, drug, liquor, and club stores. Founded in 2012 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the platform allows users to accumulate points through their purchases, which can then be redeemed for gift cards to various retailers. The app simplifies the savings process for consumers while offering brand partners valuable insights into shopping behaviors and the ability to reward customer loyalty effectively. Fetch Rewards aims to enhance the shopping experience by making it easy to save on everyday purchases.

Fetch

Series D in 2021
Fetch Rewards, LLC operates a mobile application that enables users to scan their grocery receipts from various retail outlets, including grocery, convenience, drug, liquor, and club stores. Founded in 2012 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the platform allows users to accumulate points through their purchases, which can then be redeemed for gift cards to various retailers. The app simplifies the savings process for consumers while offering brand partners valuable insights into shopping behaviors and the ability to reward customer loyalty effectively. Fetch Rewards aims to enhance the shopping experience by making it easy to save on everyday purchases.

PatSnap

Series E in 2021
PatSnap is an innovation intelligence platform established in 2007 and based in Singapore. It provides artificial intelligence-driven insights aimed at empowering innovators to make informed decisions throughout the product development lifecycle. Serving over 10,000 customers across more than 50 countries, PatSnap specializes in delivering comprehensive market, technology, and competitive intelligence, alongside patent analysis. Its platform facilitates the identification of new opportunities, assessment of risks, and tracking of competitors, thereby supporting informed R&D decisions and enhancing the commercialization of products.

Cortex Intelligence Tecnologia

Series B in 2020
Cortex Intelligence Tecnologia S.A. is a Brazilian company that specializes in developing and operating a data analytics platform aimed at enhancing sales and marketing effectiveness. Established in 2003 and headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, the company offers an insights platform that integrates users' internal data with a variety of external information sources, including market statistics, pricing, economic indices, social media, news articles, and governmental data. This robust platform allows clients to conduct both simple and complex analyses on demand, facilitating data-driven decision-making. By linking structured and unstructured data, Cortex Intelligence enables businesses across various sectors, including market research, retail, and trade intelligence, to optimize sales strategies and achieve their marketing objectives through informed actions.

Reonomy

Series C in 2018
Reonomy is a commercial real estate (CRE) technology company that uses big data, partnerships, and machine learning to consolidate fragmented CRE information into a comprehensive platform. This platform offers insights and analytics tools, empowering professionals such as lenders, brokers, and investors to make informed property-centric decisions by providing access to detailed property intelligence.

Reonomy

Venture Round in 2018
Reonomy is a commercial real estate (CRE) technology company that uses big data, partnerships, and machine learning to consolidate fragmented CRE information into a comprehensive platform. This platform offers insights and analytics tools, empowering professionals such as lenders, brokers, and investors to make informed property-centric decisions by providing access to detailed property intelligence.

Reonomy

Series B in 2015
Reonomy is a commercial real estate (CRE) technology company that uses big data, partnerships, and machine learning to consolidate fragmented CRE information into a comprehensive platform. This platform offers insights and analytics tools, empowering professionals such as lenders, brokers, and investors to make informed property-centric decisions by providing access to detailed property intelligence.

Reonomy

Series A in 2014
Reonomy is a commercial real estate (CRE) technology company that uses big data, partnerships, and machine learning to consolidate fragmented CRE information into a comprehensive platform. This platform offers insights and analytics tools, empowering professionals such as lenders, brokers, and investors to make informed property-centric decisions by providing access to detailed property intelligence.

Poptip

Convertible Note in 2012
Poptip is a conversation analysis platform that helps brands and media fully understand public opinion in real-time and make decisions quickly based on that opinion. The platform simultaneously empowers the public’s voice and turns their opinions into actionable data. Poptip’s clients include L’Oreal, NBA, ESPN, NFL, Spotify, Budweiser and Yoplait. The New York-based company was founded in 2012 by Kelsey Falter. Poptip has raised $2.4 million to date in funding notably from Lerer Ventures, SoftBank Capital and RSE Ventures. For more information, please visit www.poptip.com.

Poptip

Seed Round in 2012
Poptip is a conversation analysis platform that helps brands and media fully understand public opinion in real-time and make decisions quickly based on that opinion. The platform simultaneously empowers the public’s voice and turns their opinions into actionable data. Poptip’s clients include L’Oreal, NBA, ESPN, NFL, Spotify, Budweiser and Yoplait. The New York-based company was founded in 2012 by Kelsey Falter. Poptip has raised $2.4 million to date in funding notably from Lerer Ventures, SoftBank Capital and RSE Ventures. For more information, please visit www.poptip.com.

Morningstar

Private Equity Round in 1999
Morningstar is a leading provider of independent investment research, catering to financial advisors, asset managers, and individual investors globally. Established in 1984 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company specializes in two main areas: data and research. It offers extensive data on various investment vehicles, including mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and more, while also providing real-time market data for equities, derivatives, and currencies. In addition to its data services, Morningstar conducts in-depth research, delivering analyst insights on both passive and active mutual funds, as well as alternative funds and college savings plans. The majority of its revenue is generated from the United States.
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