SoftBank announces second Vision Fund with $108b in capital

SoftBank announces second Vision Fund with $108b in capital

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg

Microsoft and Foxconn Technology have joined more than a dozen other investors who have agreed to contribute at least $70 billion to the sequel to SoftBank Group’s near $100 billion Vision Fund, as the Japanese conglomerate looks to maintain its rapid pace of deal-making in technology companies around the world.

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