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SoftBank

Corporate venture · Founded 1981 · Active in 2026

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266 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #33 · Global · 266 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 17% 5y
194
Decacorns ↑ 16% 5y
22
Thoroughbreds ↑ 124% 5y
132
Featured in #33Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 0.5%

SoftBank is a corporate venture based in Japan, founded in 1981. The page below shows 266 Power Law outcomes from SoftBank's portfolio — 194 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 5 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · UK. SoftBank ranks #33 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 266 SoftBank Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA138
  2. India19
  3. UK17
  4. China17
  5. Brazil14
  6. Mexico6
  7. Germany6
  8. France5
  9. Norway4
  10. Singapore4
  11. Spain4
  12. Israel2
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech47
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces35
  3. Transportation31
  4. Marketing23
  5. Biotech & Life Sciences20
  6. Other B2B Software18
  7. Health Tech & Medtech17
  8. AI15
  9. Other15
  10. Edtech13
  11. Cybersecurity12
  12. Robotics9
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+191
  2. Series A10
  3. Seed1
01 · Portfolio market map

SoftBank's 266 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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266 of 266 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where SoftBank's founders come from — and where they study.

606 founders across the 266 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States170
India76
China34
Germany26
Israel21
Vietnam15
United Kingdom14
New Zealand13
Colombia13
Canada13
+32 more →
UniversityCount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology17
Stanford University17
Harvard Business School15
University of Cambridge14
Harvard University12
Stanford University Graduate School of Business11
University of Texas at Austin10
Carnegie Mellon University10
Berkeley10
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi9
+224 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google25
Microsoft16
Amazon12
Meta11
Yahoo!11
Uber6
Apple6
Snapdeal5
LinkedIn4
VeriSign Authentication Services3
+171 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at SoftBank.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does SoftBank stack up?

SoftBank in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about SoftBank

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SoftBank on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about SoftBank

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