SoftBank Investment Advisers

SoftBank Investment Advisers is a venture capital firm established in 2017 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It operates as a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp. and specializes in growth capital and late-stage investments predominantly within the technology sector. The firm focuses on a diverse array of industries, including internet-of-things, artificial intelligence, robotics, telecommunications, computational biology, fintech, and digital financial services. With a preference for global investments, particularly in the United States, SoftBank Investment Advisers typically commits a minimum of $100 million to both minority and majority stakes in private and public companies. The firm is known for offering operational expertise and leveraging a vast global network, aiming to support innovative companies that have the potential to revolutionize their respective fields. It maintains additional offices in key locations such as Tokyo, San Francisco, and Singapore.

Karim Abouzahr

Director, SoftBank Europe Ventures

Lee Bocker

COO

John Cassidy

Investment Director, Life Sciences and HealthTech

Tom Cheung

Partner, Americas

Rodrigo Costa

Partner

Serena Dayal

Investment Director

Angela Du

Investor

Colin Fan

Managing Partner, Americas, Asia

Ted Fike

Director, Americas

Ronald Fisher

Executive Vice Chairman

Eric Gan

Executive Vice President

Navneet Govil

Managing Partner, CFO

Ayush Jain

Investment Vice President

Lydia Jett

Partner

Sumer Juneja

Partner and Head of India

Robert Kaplan

Investment Director

Hiroaki Kitano

SVP

Anna Lo

Director, Americas

Amit Lubovsky

Director, Americas

Jimi Macdonald

Director

Ken Miyauchi

Representative Director and Senior Executive Vice President

Greg Moon

Managing Partner, Asia

Akshay Naheta

Partner, EMEA

Karol Niewiadomski

Partner

Shu Nyatta

Managing Partner

Max Ohrstrand

Partner, EMEA

Vikas Parekh

Partner

Yanni Pipilis

Managing Partner

Narendra Rathi

Director, Asia

Saleh Romeih

Managing Partner, Investment Committee Member, SBIA, EMEA

David Thevenon

Partner

Ram Trichur

Partner

Ervin Tu

Partner, Americas

Munish Varma

Partner, EMEA, Asia

Aaron Wong

Vice President

Andrew Zloto

Investment Director

Tim Yap

Director, EMEA

Vishal Gupta

Director

Past deals in Big Data

Glean

Series E in 2024
Glean develops AI-based search engine software that facilitates access to enterprise data, enabling employees to efficiently find information and generate answers. Its primary product, Workplace Search, serves as an enterprise search platform that integrates with various internal data sources, allowing users to obtain relevant search results from multiple applications based on specific keywords. By employing advanced search techniques, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models, Glean's platform delivers personalized answers that are contextually grounded, enhancing productivity and information retrieval within organizations.

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 operates additional offices in London, Helsinki, Pune, and the U.S. Its platform allows users to efficiently search and analyze a wide range of financial data, including filings, research reports, and news, by utilizing natural language processing and advanced search algorithms. With nearly 2,000 enterprise clients, including a significant number of S&P 500 companies, AlphaSense empowers organizations to make informed business decisions quickly and confidently. The platform's capabilities include setting alerts and navigating through vast amounts of data to extract crucial insights across various industries.

Cornami

Series C in 2022
Cornami, Inc. is a high-performance computing company based in Campbell, California, with additional offices in Sacramento and Boston. Founded in 2011, Cornami has developed a patented multi-core technology that enhances software performance, power efficiency, and latency while significantly increasing compute performance. This innovative approach allows processor cores to function as scalable resources, similar to memory and storage, facilitating real-time computing with minimal cost and power consumption. Cornami's technology aims to support a variety of markets, with an initial emphasis on Big Data, by enabling real-time fully homomorphic encryption and providing high-performance computing capabilities across diverse devices and platforms.

6Sense

Series E in 2022
6Sense is a company that transforms how organizations manage and convert sales pipelines into revenue. It offers a predictive intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to capture anonymous buying signals and provide insights into customer behavior. By identifying the right accounts and suggesting optimal communication channels and messages, 6Sense helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams enhance pipeline quality and accelerate sales processes. This technology not only reduces guesswork and friction in the sales journey but also aims to increase conversion rates and facilitate predictable revenue growth. Through its omnichannel connectivity and visibility, 6Sense enables revenue teams to make informed decisions based on buyer intent data and other predictive analytics.

Shoplazza

Series C in 2022
Shoplazza is a shopping cart commerce technology company established in 2017, focused on providing an all-in-one eCommerce platform for businesses of all sizes. The platform enables merchants to easily start, market, and manage their online stores through a single integrated back-end system. It emphasizes reliability, security, and adaptability, allowing merchants to create a headless commerce experience. Shoplazza also has a North America-based Direct-to-Customer branding incubation team that supports merchants in building memorable and distinctive brands while fostering direct relationships with buyers. The company's advanced data analytical capabilities enhance its offerings, ensuring that merchants can effectively grow their businesses independently. With its global strategy department located in Toronto, Shoplazza aims to empower merchants worldwide.

Alice

Series C in 2021
Alice is transforming the health insurance landscape in Brazil by developing a comprehensive healthcare system that leverages technology and data. The company focuses on providing world-class primary care through value-based agreements with healthcare providers, which enhances clinical outcomes and offers a superior patient experience at reduced costs. Alice's services facilitate a strong connection between individuals and their healthcare teams, enabling users to manage appointments, track health plans, receive exam recommendations, and access specialist consultations. By delivering personalized and data-driven care, Alice aims to improve accessibility and overall health management for its clients.

Clarity AI

Venture Round in 2021
Clarity AI, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in delivering insights on environmental and social impacts to investors and organizations through a sustainability platform. Utilizing machine learning and big data, Clarity AI's software allows for systematic measurement and optimization of the social impact of investment portfolios. The platform analyzes a vast array of data, including information on over 30,000 companies, 135,000 funds, 198 countries, and 187 local governments, thereby providing comprehensive analytics for investment, corporate research, and regulatory reporting. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Albany, New York, with additional offices in Madrid and London, Clarity AI serves a diverse client base that manages trillions in assets, equipping decision-makers with the necessary tools to understand and enhance their social and environmental impacts.

Flock Freight

Series D in 2021
Flock Freight is reimagining and reinventing the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and human-centric logistics management, Flock Freight tailors its shipping experience to meet your business’s needs. Flock Freight seamlessly pools any freight to find the perfect route, avoiding terminals and risky offloads so that a shipment travels safely and directly to its destination, damage-free. The result: on-time delivery with every shipment—guaranteed. With venture capital from Google Ventures and SignalFire, Flock Freight is one of the largest startups in San Diego, California. The company's team is obsessed with aggressively growing its customer base, constantly improving the technology platform, and delivering a superior customer experience. Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the $60 billion LTL freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time.

MindTickle

Series E in 2021
MindTickle is a privately-held company that provides a data-driven sales readiness platform aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of customer-facing teams. With its headquarters in San Francisco and Pune, the platform is utilized by sales teams across various industries to address knowledge and skill gaps through automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools. MindTickle's solution incorporates gamification and role-play elements, facilitating on-demand training and mobile updates. This comprehensive approach helps organizations assess and certify the readiness of their sales representatives, leading to improved deal sizes, higher win rates, and shorter sales cycles. Investors in MindTickle include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Cobli

Series B in 2021
Cobli is a FleetTech company focused on simplifying and enhancing fleet management. Founded by Parker Treacy and Rodrigo Mourad, Cobli has experienced over 100% annual growth and has expanded its workforce to more than 400 employees. The company has raised $45 million in funding, primarily from Softbank, and operates across Brazil, serving diverse industries such as telecommunications, transportation, energy, e-commerce, and construction. Cobli's platform leverages IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and video telemetry technologies to improve fleet efficiency. Its solutions are designed to reduce costs, enhance productivity, increase driver safety, ensure operational compliance, and elevate the customer experience. The company also specializes in vehicle tracking and provides tools for monitoring driver behavior, dynamic routing, and fraud prevention, addressing common challenges faced by fleet owners.

Hexagon Bio

Series B in 2021
Hexagon Bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Menlo Park, California, focused on discovering novel drugs for diseases that lack effective treatments. Established in 2016, the company utilizes a data-driven approach that combines genomics, synthetic biology, and computational techniques. By mining genomic data from fungal genomes, Hexagon Bio aims to identify targeted small molecule therapeutics. Its proprietary platform leverages data science to engineer drugs from DNA sequences, enabling the identification of small molecule inhibitors that interact with specific target proteins. This innovative method allows researchers to tap into the global metagenome, facilitating the development of new medicines aimed at improving patient outcomes.

Netradyne

Series C in 2021
Netradyne Inc. is a technology company specializing in artificial intelligence-based fleet management solutions. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, California, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, Netradyne focuses on enhancing fleet safety through advanced computer vision and data analysis. Its offerings include VisionPRO, an integrated vision safety system that utilizes multiple camera angles to monitor driving events, and Driveri, a platform that emphasizes recognizing and rewarding positive driver performance. By processing visual and sensory inputs across various industries, including automotive, agriculture, and construction, Netradyne aims to improve safety standards for commercial vehicles and reduce accidents. The company leverages advancements in camera technology, sensor costs, and deep learning to provide actionable insights that enhance fleet management and driver awareness.

Habi

Series B in 2021
Habi is a technology-driven real estate company based in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2019. The firm focuses on simplifying the home buying and selling process for middle-class customers in Latin America by utilizing a proprietary pricing algorithm and scalable processes. Habi's platform aims to reduce the time and risks associated with traditional real estate transactions, allowing clients to buy and sell their homes more efficiently. By combining advanced analytical tools with human insight, Habi eliminates the need for intermediaries and provides clients with the necessary information to make informed decisions in the real estate market.

Flock Freight

Series C in 2020
Flock Freight is reimagining and reinventing the freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and human-centric logistics management, Flock Freight tailors its shipping experience to meet your business’s needs. Flock Freight seamlessly pools any freight to find the perfect route, avoiding terminals and risky offloads so that a shipment travels safely and directly to its destination, damage-free. The result: on-time delivery with every shipment—guaranteed. With venture capital from Google Ventures and SignalFire, Flock Freight is one of the largest startups in San Diego, California. The company's team is obsessed with aggressively growing its customer base, constantly improving the technology platform, and delivering a superior customer experience. Flock Freight aims to fundamentally change the $60 billion LTL freight industry across North America with FlockDirect—one pooled shipment at a time.

MemBlaze

Series D in 2020
MemBlaze is a Beijing-based company specializing in the production of memory cards and solid-state drives (SSDs) for enterprise applications. The firm focuses on developing enterprise-class NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSDs that are suitable for a variety of fields, including databases, virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. MemBlaze's products aim to deliver stable and reliable high-speed storage solutions tailored for businesses in sectors such as internet services, cloud computing, finance, and telecommunications.

MindTickle

Series D in 2020
MindTickle is a privately-held company that provides a data-driven sales readiness platform aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of customer-facing teams. With its headquarters in San Francisco and Pune, the platform is utilized by sales teams across various industries to address knowledge and skill gaps through automated training paths, adaptive learning, and virtual coaching tools. MindTickle's solution incorporates gamification and role-play elements, facilitating on-demand training and mobile updates. This comprehensive approach helps organizations assess and certify the readiness of their sales representatives, leading to improved deal sizes, higher win rates, and shorter sales cycles. Investors in MindTickle include Accel, Canaan, NEA, NewView Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Softbank.

Didi

Venture Round in 2020
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.

Didi Woya

Venture Round in 2020
Didi Woya is a pioneering startup focused on creating autonomous vehicles for rideshares. Their goal is to revolutionize transportation services by providing efficient, affordable, and comfortable rides with rapid response times and budget-friendly fares. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, the Internet of Things, and comprehensive 360-degree monitoring, DiDi Woya is dedicated to developing and commercializing innovative solutions in the field.

Cohesity

Series E in 2020
Cohesity, Inc. is a data management technology company that specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2013 and based in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity aims to simplify the protection, management, and extraction of value from data. Its flagship product, the Cohesity DataPlatform, consolidates secondary data and workflows, eliminating storage silos and streamlining data management. The company also offers DataProtect, which integrates various data protection functions, including backup and disaster recovery, as well as the Cohesity Orion platform for comprehensive data protection and big data storage. Additionally, Cohesity provides tools for monitoring and managing data infrastructure through its SaaS-based solution, Cohesity Helios, and its mobile application. The company serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and maintains a strategic partnership with Pure Storage to enhance its offerings.

Behavox

Venture Round in 2020
Behavox Ltd. specializes in compliance surveillance software tailored for the capital markets sector. Its offerings include Behavox Compliance, an employee monitoring and risk scoring system, and Behavox Voice, which processes and analyzes voice recordings with multi-lingual capabilities. The company has developed a unified enterprise platform that aggregates various data types into a single data lake, allowing for real-time querying and the application of machine learning to identify misconduct and insider threats. Behavox's innovative approach combines sophisticated engineering with insights from academic research, enabling the continuous improvement of detection algorithms and facilitating the early identification of market abuse, fraud, and other risky behaviors. Founded in 2014, Behavox is headquartered in London, with additional offices in St Petersburg, Russia, and Tokyo, Japan, and operations in Canada.

Tomorrow.io

Series B in 2018
Tomorrow.io operates a weather intelligence platform that delivers real-time, location-specific forecasts tailored to various industries affected by weather conditions. Utilizing advanced technologies such as wireless signals, connected vehicles, satellite communications, and traditional meteorological data, the platform provides accurate and customizable weather information. This enables clients, including notable organizations like the NFL, Uber, and Delta, to enhance operational efficiency, streamline communication, and optimize decision-making processes in response to weather challenges. Tomorrow.io's services are designed to improve productivity and profit margins across diverse sectors, with a presence in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

Cohesity

Series D in 2018
Cohesity, Inc. is a data management technology company that specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2013 and based in Santa Clara, California, with an additional office in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity aims to simplify the protection, management, and extraction of value from data. Its flagship product, the Cohesity DataPlatform, consolidates secondary data and workflows, eliminating storage silos and streamlining data management. The company also offers DataProtect, which integrates various data protection functions, including backup and disaster recovery, as well as the Cohesity Orion platform for comprehensive data protection and big data storage. Additionally, Cohesity provides tools for monitoring and managing data infrastructure through its SaaS-based solution, Cohesity Helios, and its mobile application. The company serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and maintains a strategic partnership with Pure Storage to enhance its offerings.

Didi

Private Equity Round in 2017
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.

Codoon Health

Angel Round in 2017
Codoon Health is an IT company focused on enhancing health and wellness through technology. It specializes in the development of mobile applications that utilize artificial intelligence and big data to provide personalized exercise and diet consulting services. The company's app evaluates users' physical conditions and offers tailored exercise and diet plans, helping individuals achieve their health goals and improve their overall well-being.

Findability Sciences

Series A in 2017
Findability Sciences specializes in leveraging big data, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence through its flagship product, the Findability Platform®. This award-winning platform enhances data context and features self-learning capabilities, providing tailored solutions for global corporations across various sectors, including insurance, retail, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and transportation. By unifying structured and unstructured data, the platform maximizes data asset value and facilitates conversational computing via chatbots and virtual agents. It generates actionable insights that enable marketing professionals to understand consumer personas and predict trends related to costs, pricing, and risks more accurately than ever before. Headquartered near Boston, MA, Findability Sciences operates in the United States, Japan, and India, and collaborates with major technology providers, including being part of the IBM Watson Partner Ecosystem. The company is also invested in a joint venture with SoftBank and a privately held predictive modeling technology firm.

Guardant Health

Series E in 2017
Guardant Health, Inc. is a precision oncology company based in Redwood City, California, specializing in blood tests, data analytics, and related services for cancer detection and treatment. The company is known for its innovative liquid biopsy tests designed for advanced-stage cancer, including Guardant360, which assesses multiple cancer-related genes, and GuardantOMNI, which offers a broader gene panel for immuno-oncology applications. Additionally, Guardant Health provides LUNAR-1, aimed at detecting minimal residual disease in cancer survivors, and is developing LUNAR-2 for early cancer detection in high-risk individuals. The company also supports biopharmaceutical firms and medical institutions with services such as companion diagnostic development, regulatory approval, and clinical trial referrals. Guardant Health has established collaborations, including one with Radius Health for developing a companion diagnostic related to elacestrant. Since its incorporation in 2011, the company has focused on advancing patient health through technological innovations in oncology.

Didi

Private Equity Round in 2017
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.

Didi

Funding Round in 2016
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.

gtexpress.cn

Series A in 2016
Fingertip Express is an express delivery industry entry portal enterprise and solution provider. It makes use of cloud computing and big data technology to enable users to send, receive, query, and manage express package services.

gtexpress.cn

Seed Round in 2015
Fingertip Express is an express delivery industry entry portal enterprise and solution provider. It makes use of cloud computing and big data technology to enable users to send, receive, query, and manage express package services.

Kuaidi Dache

Series D in 2015
Kuaidi Group, as the most technologically integrated and largest car service company in the world, is rapidly transforming the concept of moving people – starting in China. The app combines integrated mapping and third party payment technology to make its service accessible to everybody, and provides over 1 million taxis and a variety of standard and luxury cars for all lifestyles. To ensure the service fits smoothly into urban life, Kuaidi has developed a framework is that is adaptable to other platforms in China, and works in partnership with China’s government and regulators instead of against them. In a country where only 18% of per capita car ownership, Kuaidi is clearly meeting an important need. Kuaidi’s unique business model has attracted 100m registered users in over 300 cities, fulfilling 6 million requests per day. To optimize its services and go beyond customer expectations Kuaidi has secured partnerships with Alipay, Ctrip, AutoNavi, Baidu Maps, Qunar, and Beijing’s ‘96106’ government official platform.

TalkingData

Series B in 2014
TalkingData is a leading provider of data intelligence solutions in China, specializing in advanced analytics and statistical software for mobile devices. Established in September 2011 in Beijing, the company has reached nearly 1.5 billion mobile devices, delivering comprehensive market reports that cover key performance indicators, user behavior, and industry trends. TalkingData offers a wide range of products, including data mining, deep data analytics, and a Data Management Platform, positioning itself as a critical resource for app developers and marketers. Approximately 80% of the top 50 app developers in China utilize TalkingData’s services to track app metrics and analyze user data for monetization purposes. The company has formed strategic partnerships with a majority of the leading distribution channels and advertising networks in the country, enhancing its market presence. Additionally, TalkingData is exploring cross-border collaborations with sectors such as finance and other traditional industries, further expanding its impact in the data intelligence landscape.
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