Tag: SoftBank

Startups
SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video

SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video

Firework provides tools for retailers and consumer brands to tap into their own ...

Startups
Daily Crunch: Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he’s on the hook for $750M SoftBank loan

Daily Crunch: Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he’s on t...

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important start...

Startups
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he is ‘personally liable’ for $750M SoftBank loan

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg says he is ‘personally liabl...

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg has acknowledged to employees that he “personally gua...

Startups
Colombian proptech Habi reaches unicorn status with $200M raise co-led by SoftBank and Homebrew

Colombian proptech Habi reaches unicorn status with $20...

Habi, a Bogota-based proptech, has closed on $200 million in a Series C funding ...

Startups
AccelByte, a backend services platform for game developers, raises $60M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

AccelByte, a backend services platform for game develop...

AccelByte, a platform that helps game creators build backend services and tools,...

Startups
Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this time backed by SoftBank

Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this...

This new monster round comes about a year after another big fundraise of $316 mi...

Funding
SME lender Funding Societies raises $144M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, plus $150M in debt lines

SME lender Funding Societies raises $144M led by SoftBa...

Small businesses are the backbone of Southeast Asia’s economy, but many struggle...

Startups
SoftBank, Goldman Sachs mint unicorn in Indian commerce startup ElasticRun

SoftBank, Goldman Sachs mint unicorn in Indian commerce...

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led a $300 million investment in ElasticRun as the Ja...

Funding
Esusu becomes unicorn with SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $130M funding

Esusu becomes unicorn with SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $...

More than 100 million Americans spend an average of $1,100 (more than $1.4 trill...

Startups
SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure company Pyxis One as it starts year with new name

SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure com...

Prior to starting Pixis, the co-founders spoke to potential marketing customers ...

Startups
Indonesia’s eFishery raises $90M from Temasek, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sequoia Capital India

Indonesia’s eFishery raises $90M from Temasek, SoftBank...

Indonesia-based eFishery announced today that it has raised what it claims is th...

Startups
Kenya’s fintech Kwara lands $4 Million in seed round from Breega, SoftBank to build neobank for credit unions

Kenya’s fintech Kwara lands $4 Million in seed round fr...

The Kenyan fintech Kwara was launched in 2019 to help credit unions (savings and...