Venture Capital

SoftBank Vision Fund

SoftBank Vision Fund (managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers) is one of the world's largest technology-focused investment funds, launched in May 2017 by SoftBank Group and anchored by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. Now operating across two funds (SVF1 and SVF2) with combined assets under management reported at roughly $150B+, the fund pursues Masayoshi Son's long "AI economy" thesis, backing high-growth companies across the AI stack: hardware and semiconductors, the software infrastructure to gather, process and deploy data, and the applications built on top of it. It typically writes large late-stage growth checks (Series C/D and beyond, often $100M to several billion) into 300+ companies worldwide, spanning enterprise software, consumer internet, health tech, fintech, logistics, transportation, frontier tech, edtech and proptech across the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Headquartered in London, with major offices in the US and Asia, its portfolio includes many unicorns and household names such as Arm, ByteDance, and Aurora.

333 portfolio companies 333 publish APIs here 12 properties
Venture CapitalGrowth EquityLate StageArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareFintechHealth TechGlobal
Portfolio Strength across 140 profiled portfolio companies on the network
21 top-rated API companies 13 exemplar · 8 strong
51 agent-ready companies 7 agent-native · 44 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 40.3
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 25.3

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

SoftBank Vision Fund has 333 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 140 (42%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 193 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are OpenAI, Klarna, Attentive, DoorDash, Treasure Data.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 13 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 53 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 42 Limited public surface area
Emerging 22 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface

Properties

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Team

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Content

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Firm

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Cohort brief

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The 304 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
304
of 333 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
24.2
-0.2 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
12.1
-0.6 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
1.5–82.9
median 16.8 · σ 19.1
How the 304 split by band
Exemplar 13Strong 8Developing 53Thin 43Emerging 80Minimal 107
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Operational Transparency 16.5 14.4 +2.1 304
Developer Ergonomics 24.1 23.8 +0.3 304
Contract Governance 6.4 6.6 -0.2 304
Discoverability 61.2 61.5 -0.3 304
Access Clarity 26.5 27.2 -0.7 304
Contract Quality 19.4 20.4 -1 304

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 11% 11% 0
MCP server (first-party) 16% 13% +3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 13% 12% +1
Security 99% 96% +3
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 12% 13% -1

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 OpenAI 82.9
  2. 2 Klarna 76.6
  3. 3 Attentive 75.8
  4. 4 Doordash 75.8
  5. 5 Treasure Data 74.6
  6. 6 Automation Anywhere 72.9
  7. 7 Sendcloud 71.3
  8. 8 6sense 71.2
  9. 9 OneTrust 70.7
  10. 10 Go1 69.1
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Massive (formerly Polygon.io) 63.1
  2. 2 Perplexity 60.4
  3. 3 OpusClip 59.6
  4. 4 Runway 56.8
  5. 5 OneTrust 55.9
  6. 6 6sense 55.6
  7. 7 WorkBoard 53.8
  8. 8 Automation Anywhere 52.4
  9. 9 Permutive 50.2
  10. 10 Revolut 49.2
This roster declares 333 members; 318 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 304 carry a score (96%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: softbank-vision-fund
name: SoftBank Vision Fund
description: >-
  SoftBank Vision Fund (managed by SoftBank Investment Advisers) is one of the
  world's largest technology-focused investment funds, launched in May 2017 by
  SoftBank Group and anchored by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia. Now
  operating across two funds (SVF1 and SVF2) with combined assets under
  management reported at roughly $150B+, the fund pursues Masayoshi Son's long
  "AI economy" thesis, backing high-growth companies across the AI stack:
  hardware and semiconductors, the software infrastructure to gather, process
  and deploy data, and the applications built on top of it. It typically writes
  large late-stage growth checks (Series C/D and beyond, often $100M to several
  billion) into 300+ companies worldwide, spanning enterprise software, consumer
  internet, health tech, fintech, logistics, transportation, frontier tech,
  edtech and proptech across the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Headquartered in
  London, with major offices in the US and Asia, its portfolio includes many
  unicorns and household names such as Arm, ByteDance, and Aurora.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://sb-vf-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/logo_vertical_grey.svg
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Growth Equity
  - Late Stage
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Enterprise Software
  - Fintech
  - Health Tech
  - Global
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://visionfund.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://visionfund.com/portfolio
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/softbank-vision-fund-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://visionfund.com/team
  - type: Team
    url: team/softbank-vision-fund-team.yml
  - type: Blog
    url: https://visionfund.com/insights
  - type: Newsletter
    url: https://visionfund.com/newsletter-signup
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://careers.visionfund.com/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://visionfund.com/contact
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/visionfund
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softbank-investment-advisers
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/softbank-vision-fund
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Late-stage growth (Series C/D and beyond)'
      - 'Typical check: $100M to several billion (large growth rounds)'
      - 'Sectors: enterprise software, consumer internet, health tech, fintech, logistics, transportation, frontier tech, edtech, proptech'
      - 'Geography: Global (Americas, EMEA, Asia)'
      - 'AUM: ~$150B+ combined across SVF1 and SVF2 (widely reported)'
      - 'Founded: 2017'
      - 'HQ: London, United Kingdom'
      - 'Funds: SVF1 and SVF2'
      - 'Portfolio: 300+ companies including many unicorns'
    sources:
      - https://visionfund.com/
      - https://visionfund.com/portfolio
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Vision_Fund
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: SoftBank Investment Advisers
    url: https://visionfund.com/

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