SoftBank Vision Fund
Finance
Flashback 2019: How venture capital dealmaking across stages fared in India
Venture investments beat the pangs of an economic slowdown this year, led by a welcome uptick in early-stage transactions, but ......
TMT
Lenskart walks into unicorn club with SoftBank Vision Fund investment
SoftBank Vision Fund is injecting $275 million (Rs 1,956 crore) into online-to-offline eyewear retailer Lenskart, as it continues to pour ......
TMT
Yahoo Japan exits Oyo-SoftBank room rental venture
India’s Oyo Hotels and Homes said on Thursday SoftBank-controlled Yahoo Japan has quit its Japanese room rental venture, in the ......
Finance
After WeWork fiasco, SoftBank's China strategy under the scanner
For SoftBank Group Corp, financial technology firm OneConnect's IPO should have been a vindication of an aggressive China investing strategy. Instead, ......
TMT
Automation Anywhere raises $290 mn in Series B round, valuation soars
Automation Anywhere Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company founded by Indian-origin entrepreneurs, has raised $290 million (Rs 2,081.35 crore at current ......
Infrastructure
WeWork to lay off 2,400 employees in SoftBank revamp
WeWork said on Thursday it is laying off around 2,400 employees, almost 20% of its workforce, as the office-sharing company ......
TMT
Why India's B2B unicorns are more capital-efficient than B2C startups
Indian or Indian-origin technology unicorns that focus on the business-to-business segment are more capital-efficient than their business-to-customer counterparts, a new ......
General
Grapevine: Investec eyes SBI Caps stake; SoftBank sets 5-year IPO deadline for Paytm
The local unit of South African financial services group Investec is leading the race to buy a stake in State ......
Infrastructure
WeWork loss widens to $1.25 bn amid office space expansion
The We Company, owner of WeWork, said on Wednesday net losses in the third quarter more than doubled to $1.25 ......
TMT
Tencent buys Tiger Global stake to bet on PolicyBazaar
Chinese conglomerate Tencent Holdings Ltd has picked up a stake in Indian insurance aggregator PolicyBazaar, as it continues to ramp ......
