# SoftBank

> SoftBank's investments in AI tools on Anchor Terminal, Automation Anywhere, Commerce Fabric, Inc., Glean Technologies, Inc., OpenAI and 9 more, with each listing's grade and the founders behind it.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Venture firm.

Website: https://www.visionfund.com

## Companies on Anchor Terminal

- **Automation Anywhere**, Series B, November 2019, through Softbank Investment Advisers
  - [Automation Anywhere](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.md), graded D, 51/100
  - Source: https://www.automationanywhere.com/company/press-room/automation-anywhere-announces-290-million-in-series-b-financing
- **Commerce Fabric, Inc.**, through SoftBank Group
  - [Fabric](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fabric.md), graded E, 43.8/100
  - Source: https://fabric.inc/about
- **Glean Technologies, Inc.**, Series E, September 2024, Series F, June 2025, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2
  - [Glean](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glean.md), graded B, 69.9/100
  - Source: https://www.glean.com/press/glean-announces-over-260-million-series-e-and-next-generation-prompting-as-it-brings-work-ai-to-the-enterprise
- **OpenAI**, $6.6B round, October 2024, $40B round, March 2025, led a round
  - [GPT-Live](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-live.md), graded B, 66.9/100
  - [gpt-oss-120b](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-oss-120b.md), graded BB, 70.2/100
  - [gpt-oss-20b](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-oss-20b.md), graded B, 69.9/100
  - [OpenAI Agents SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-agents-sdk.md), graded AA, 86.2/100
  - [OpenAI API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-api.md), graded A, 82.9/100
  - [OpenAI Codex](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-codex.md), graded BB, 73.5/100
  - [OpenAI Decisions API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-decisions-api.md), graded BB, 73.1/100
  - [Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-dots.md), graded F, 28.8/100
  - [OpenAI embeddings](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-embeddings.md), graded BB, 72.2/100
  - [OpenAI Guardrails](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-guardrails.md), graded B, 69.5/100
  - [OpenAI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api.md), graded BB, 72.4/100
  - [OpenAI Moderation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-moderation.md), graded BB, 71.4/100
  - [OpenAI Realtime API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-realtime.md), graded B, 63.4/100
  - [OpenAI Speech to Text](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-speech-to-text.md), graded BB, 72.6/100
  - Source: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/openai-closes-40-billion-funding-round-largest-private-tech-deal-on-record/6206861/
- **Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.)**, Series E, May 2021, Series F, July 2022, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2
  - [Heap](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/heap.md), graded D, 53.1/100
  - Source: https://contentsquare.com/press/contentsquare-500m-series-e-investment/
- **Mapbox**, Series C, October 2017, Series E, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund
  - [Mapbox APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mapbox.md), graded BB, 77.2/100
  - Source: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/softbank-leads-funding
- **Redis**, Series G, April 2021, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2
  - [Redis MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/redis-mcp.md), graded C, 55.8/100
  - Source: https://redis.io/press/redis-labs-110-million-series-g-led-by-tiger-global/
- **Remote Technology, Inc.**, Series C, April 2022, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2
  - [Remote](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md), graded BB, 70.8/100
  - Source: https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/remote-secures-300-million-series-c-financing-to-power-global-employment/
- **Runway**, Series D, April 2025, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2
  - [Runway API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runway.md), graded C, 60.8/100
  - Source: https://runway.com/news/runway-series-d-funding
- **SambaNova Systems, Inc.**
  - [SambaCloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.md), graded B, 66.5/100
  - Source: https://sambanova.ai/company/about
- **Sendcloud B.V.**, Series C, September 2021, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2
  - [Sendcloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendcloud.md), graded B, 62/100
  - Source: https://www.sendcloud.com/blog/sendcloud-raises-177-million-in-series-c-funding-to-accelerate-growth-of-its-all-in-one-shipping-platform/
- **ShipBob, Inc.**, Series D, September 2020, Series E, June 2021, led a round, through SoftBank Vision Fund 2
  - [ShipBob](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shipbob.md), graded C, 60.9/100
  - Source: https://www.shipbob.com/blog/series-d-funding/
- **The Tomorrow Companies Inc.**, Strategic investment, April 2019, through SB Energy
  - [Tomorrow.io Weather API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomorrow-io.md), graded D, 51.5/100
  - Source: https://www.tomorrow.io/blog/sb-energy-invests-in-climacell/

## 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](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/mihir-shukla/), Automation Anywhere
- [Ankur Kothari](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ankur-kothari/), Automation Anywhere
- [Rushabh Parmani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rushabh-parmani/), Automation Anywhere
- [Neeti Mehta Shukla](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/neeti-mehta-shukla/), Automation Anywhere
- [Ryan Bartley](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ryan-bartley/), Commerce Fabric, Inc.
- [Arvind Jain](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/arvind-jain/), Glean Technologies, Inc.
- [T.R. Vishwanath](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/t-r-vishwanath/), Glean Technologies, Inc.
- [Tony Gentilcore](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tony-gentilcore/), Glean Technologies, Inc.
- [Sam Altman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sam-altman/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Elon Musk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/elon-musk/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Greg Brockman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/greg-brockman/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Ilya Sutskever](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ilya-sutskever/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [John Schulman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-schulman/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Wojciech Zaremba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/wojciech-zaremba/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Trevor Blackwell](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/trevor-blackwell/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Vicki Cheung](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vicki-cheung/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Andrej Karpathy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrej-karpathy/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Durk Kingma](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/durk-kingma/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Pamela Vagata](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pamela-vagata/), OpenAI and Stripe, OpenAI
- [Eric Gundersen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-gundersen/), Mapbox
- [Job van der Voort](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/job-van-der-voort/), Remote Technology, Inc.
- [Marcelo Lebre](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marcelo-lebre/), Remote Technology, Inc.
- [Rodrigo Liang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rodrigo-liang/), SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- [Kunle Olukotun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/kunle-olukotun/), SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- [Christopher Ré](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/christopher-re/), SambaNova Systems, Inc.
- [Divey Gulati](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/divey-gulati/), ShipBob, Inc.
- [Dhruv Saxena](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dhruv-saxena/), ShipBob, Inc.
- [Shimon Elkabetz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shimon-elkabetz/), The Tomorrow Companies Inc.
- [Rei Goffer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rei-goffer/), The Tomorrow Companies Inc.
- [Itai Zlotnik](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/itai-zlotnik/), The Tomorrow Companies Inc.

## Questions

### Which AI tools has SoftBank invested in?

Anchor Terminal lists Automation Anywhere, Commerce Fabric, Inc., Glean Technologies, Inc., OpenAI, Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.), Mapbox, Redis, Remote Technology, Inc., Runway, SambaNova Systems, Inc., Sendcloud B.V., ShipBob, Inc. and The Tomorrow Companies Inc. backed by SoftBank.

### How are SoftBank's companies graded?

On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Automation Anywhere (D, 51), Fabric (E, 43.8), Glean (B, 69.9), GPT-Live (B, 66.9), gpt-oss-120b (BB, 70.2), gpt-oss-20b (B, 69.9), OpenAI Agents SDK (AA, 86.2), OpenAI API (A, 82.9), OpenAI Codex (BB, 73.5), OpenAI Decisions API (BB, 73.1), Dots (F, 28.8), OpenAI embeddings (BB, 72.2), OpenAI Guardrails (B, 69.5), OpenAI Image API (BB, 72.4), OpenAI Moderation API (BB, 71.4), OpenAI Realtime API (B, 63.4), OpenAI Speech to Text (BB, 72.6), Heap (D, 53.1), Mapbox APIs + MCP (BB, 77.2), Redis MCP (C, 55.8), Remote (BB, 70.8), Runway API (C, 60.8), SambaCloud (B, 66.5), Sendcloud (B, 62), ShipBob (C, 60.9) and Tomorrow.io Weather API (D, 51.5).

Investors are named from the companies' own announcements, the investors' own pages, Y Combinator's company pages, public filings and news reports of a round, each with its source. An investor isn't a sign of quality, and nobody can pay to be listed or to change a grade. To correct something or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.

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