SoftBank

Companies on Anchor Terminal

• Automation Anywhere Series B, November 2019, through Softbank Investment Advisers

  • Automation Anywhere D · Desktop & mobile app control

  Source automationanywhere.com/company/…

• Commerce Fabric, Inc. through SoftBank Group

  • Fabric E · Commerce & checkout

  Source fabric.inc/about

• Glean Technologies, Inc. Series E, September 2024, Series F, June 2025, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2

  • Glean B · Company knowledge & data catalogues

  Source glean.com/press/…

• OpenAI $6.6B round, October 2024, $40B round, March 2025, led a round

  • GPT-Live B · Conversational voice agents
  • gpt-oss-120b BB · Open-weight models
  • gpt-oss-20b B · Open-weight models
  • OpenAI Agents SDK AA · Agent frameworks & SDKs
  • OpenAI API A · Model APIs & inference
  • OpenAI Codex BB · Agent harnesses
  • OpenAI Decisions API BB · Decision models
  • Dots F · Personal assistants
  • OpenAI embeddings BB · Embeddings & rerankers
  • OpenAI Guardrails B · Guardrails & safety filters
  • OpenAI Image API BB · Image generation
  • OpenAI Moderation API BB · Guardrails & safety filters
  • OpenAI Realtime API B · Conversational voice agents
  • OpenAI Speech to Text BB · Speech-to-text

  Source nbcnewyork.com/news/business/…

• Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.) Series E, May 2021, Series F, July 2022, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2

  • Heap D · Product analytics & experimentation

  Source contentsquare.com/press/…

• Mapbox Series C, October 2017, Series E, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund

  • Mapbox APIs + MCP BB · Maps, geocoding & places

  Source mapbox.com/blog/…

• Redis Series G, April 2021, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2

  • Redis MCP C · Databases & files

  Source redis.io/press/…

• Remote Technology, Inc. Series C, April 2022, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2

  • Remote BB · HR & employee operations

  Source indexventures.com/perspectives/…

• Runway Series D, April 2025, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2

  • Runway API C · Video generation

  Source runway.com/news/…

• SambaNova Systems, Inc.

  • SambaCloud B · Model APIs & inference

  Source sambanova.ai/company/about

• Sendcloud B.V. Series C, September 2021, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2

  • Sendcloud B · Shipping & fulfilment

  Source sendcloud.com/blog/…

• ShipBob, Inc. Series D, September 2020, Series E, June 2021, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2

  • ShipBob C · Shipping & fulfilment

  Source shipbob.com/blog/series-d-funding

• The Tomorrow Companies Inc. Strategic investment, April 2019, through SB Energy

  • Tomorrow.io Weather API D · Weather & climate data

  Source tomorrow.io/blog/…

Where they invest

Conversational voice agents 2 Open-weight models 2 Model APIs & inference 2 Guardrails & safety filters 2 Shipping & fulfilment 2 Desktop & mobile app control 1 Commerce & checkout 1 Company knowledge & data catalogues 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Agent harnesses 1 Decision models 1 Personal assistants 1 Embeddings & rerankers 1 Image generation 1 Speech-to-text 1 Product analytics & experimentation 1 Maps, geocoding & places 1 Databases & files 1 HR & employee operations 1 Video generation 1 Weather & climate data 1

Founders they backed

• Mihir Shukla Automation Anywhere
• Ankur Kothari Automation Anywhere
• Rushabh Parmani Automation Anywhere
• Neeti Mehta Shukla Automation Anywhere
• Ryan Bartley Commerce Fabric, Inc.
• Arvind Jain Glean Technologies, Inc.
• T.R. Vishwanath Glean Technologies, Inc.
• Tony Gentilcore Glean Technologies, Inc.
• Sam Altman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Elon Musk OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Greg Brockman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Ilya Sutskever OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• John Schulman OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Wojciech Zaremba OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Trevor Blackwell OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Vicki Cheung OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Andrej Karpathy OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Durk Kingma OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Pamela Vagata OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
• Eric Gundersen Mapbox
• Job van der Voort Remote Technology, Inc.
• Marcelo Lebre Remote Technology, Inc.
• Rodrigo Liang SambaNova Systems, Inc.
• Kunle Olukotun SambaNova Systems, Inc.
• Christopher Ré SambaNova Systems, Inc.
• Divey Gulati ShipBob, Inc.
• Dhruv Saxena ShipBob, Inc.
• Shimon Elkabetz The Tomorrow Companies Inc.
• Rei Goffer The Tomorrow Companies Inc.
• Itai Zlotnik The Tomorrow Companies Inc.

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