Investor · 4 deals

SoftBank Vision Fund 2

Disclosed deals

Every published round SoftBank Vision Fund 2 took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
eFishery	Series D+	25 May 2023	$200m	Participant	G42	AgFunderNews (Thu 28 Dec 2023), AgFunderNews (Thu 25 May 2023)
Go1	Series D+	6 Jun 2022	$140m	Lead	Larsen Ventures Tiger Global Ten13 Scott Shleifer John Curtius AirTree Ventures Blue Cloud Ventures Five Sigma Madrona Venture Group Salesforce Ventures Scott Shleifer John Curtius YC M12 SEEK	go1.com, Startup Daily (Thu 7 Sep 2023), SmartCompany (Tue 9 May 2023), TechCrunch Australia (Mon 8 May 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 30 Jan 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 26 Jan 2023), SmartCompany (Thu 15 Dec 2022), Crunchbase News (Tue 30 Aug 2022), Techboard, edtechchronicle.com, Startup Daily (Tue 7 Jun 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 7 Jun 2022), Tech Funding News - Australia, TechCrunch Australia (Mon 6 Jun 2022), Crunchbase News (Mon 6 Jun 2022), Our Innovation Fund, AirTree Ventures portfolio, Ten13 portfolio
Go1	Series D+	19 Jul 2021	$200m	Lead	SoftBank AirTree Ventures Salesforce Ventures Blue Cloud Ventures Larsen Ventures Ten13 Tiger Global M12 Madrona Venture Group SEEK Scott Shleifer John Curtius SoftBank Vision Fund SoftBank's Vision 2 fund YC	Startup Daily (Thu 7 Sep 2023), Startup Daily (Thu 26 Jan 2023), Crunchbase News (Tue 30 Aug 2022), Startup Daily (Tue 7 Jun 2022), TechCrunch Australia (Mon 6 Jun 2022), Our Innovation Fund (Mon 6 Jun 2022), SmartCompany (Wed 13 Apr 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 1 Feb 2022), SmartCompany (Mon 24 Jan 2022), Techboard, SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Wed 25 Aug 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 13 Aug 2021), Our Innovation Fund (Thu 5 Aug 2021), SmartCompany (Fri 30 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Mon 26 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 20 Jul 2021), SmartCompany (Tue 20 Jul 2021), Crunchbase News (Mon 19 Jul 2021), TechCrunch Australia (Mon 19 Jul 2021), Aura Group portfolio
Skedulo	Series C	12 Jul 2021	$100m	Lead	SoftBank SoftBank Vision Fund	Startup Daily (Fri 6 May 2022), Startup Daily (Wed 4 May 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021), Startup Daily (Tue 20 Jul 2021), @AuManufacturing, SmartCompany (Mon 12 Jul 2021), Startup Daily (Fri 9 Jul 2021)

Portfolio

Companies SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
eFishery		25 May 2023, Series D+	1	0
Go1		19 Jul 2021, Series D+	2	2
Skedulo	Mobile workforce scheduling and management software	12 Jul 2021, Series C	1	1

Funds

Fund closes reported for SoftBank Vision Fund 2, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for SoftBank Vision Fund 2 yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal SoftBank Vision Fund 2 did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is recorded as having been acquired.

Coverage

Stories naming SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

20 deals

The top 20 agtech deals of 2023

A year-end countdown of 2023's twenty largest agtech funding rounds, from biofuels and carbon marketplaces to farm robotics, with EcoCeres' $400 million raise at the top.

Also AgFunderNews

Unnamed stage $139m+

Edtech unicorn Go1 raises US$100 million as valuation reaches US$2 billion

A Brisbane learning-platform company has banked fresh backing exceeding US$100 million, lifting its worth to US$2 billion, with several venture investors named, alongside two recent acquisitions and a new president.

SmartCompany Tue 7 Jun 2022 Go1 Coorpacademy Education Changemakers Harvard Business Publishing Pluralsight SAP SuccessFactors AirTree Ventures Blue Cloud Ventures Five Sigma Madrona Venture Group Salesforce Ventures SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Andrew Barnes Marc Havercroft

Also SmartCompany

2 deals

Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform

Also Crunchbase News·TechCrunch Venture·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Tech Funding News - Australia·Techboard·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·edtechchronicle.com·go1.com·Crunchbase News·TechCrunch Venture

14 deals

Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap: Unicorns galore, online marketplaces put on notice, VC pyramid schemes

Weekly roundup reporting Invoice2go's sale to Bill.com, raises by Go1, Employment Hero, InDebted and others, Rokt's secondary sale, Wildcard Ventures' launch, plus global deals including Zoom-Five9 and Salesforce-Slack.

Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany

Unnamed stage $100m

Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Manufacturing roundup: AML3D joins a naval shipbuilding research facility with BAE Systems and Flinders University; Cann Group recovers scam losses; Ridley divests its Westbury plant; Skedulo secures $100m from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2.

@AuManufacturing Mon 12 Jul 2021 Skedulo AML3D BAE Systems Maritime Australia Cann Group Flinders University Ridley Corporation SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Andrew Sales Matt Fairhurst Quinton Hildebrand Sharon Wilson

Series C $100m

Brisbane workforce productivity startup Skedulo raises $100 million from SoftBank

Skedulo, founded in Brisbane and now San Francisco-headquartered, has raised a Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 to scale its deskless workforce platform and expand internationally.

Startup Daily Fri 9 Jul 2021 Skedulo Didi SambaNova SoftBank Investment Advisers SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Matt Fairhurst Priya Saiprasad

Also SmartCompany·@AuManufacturing·Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily·Startup Daily

Series C US$100m

Your 90-second guide to the day in tech

Roundup of overseas tech news: Deliveroo's London debut disappoints, Spotify acquires sports-audio firm Betty Labs, Apple posts record quarterly revenue, and Cameo's Series C makes it a unicorn.

Startup Daily Thu 1 Apr 2021 Cameo Amazon Anchr Apple Clubhouse Deliveroo Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Lightspeed Spotify Amazon Alexa Fund Google Ventures SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Tony Hawk Steven Galanis

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