SoftBank’s $100b Vision Fund rankles VCs as valuations soar

SoftBank’s $100b Vision Fund rankles VCs as valuations soar

Masayoshi Son. Photo: Bloomberg

Earlier this month SoftBank led a $502 million investment in a London-based virtual reality startup called Improbable Worlds. Less than two years ago, the startup was worth about $100 million. Then SoftBank came along, and suddenly it was worth 10 times that. Overnight, Improbable Worlds had become a unicorn.

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