SoftBank

12 tracked neobanks backed · North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, MENA, Oceania · softbank.jp ↗

Masayoshi Son's Tokyo conglomerate whose $100B Vision Fund (2017) was the largest tech fund ever raised — mega-cheques into SoFi, Klarna, OPay and Paytm.

SoftBank appears in the publicly disclosed early funding rounds of 12 of the 358 neobanks tracked in the open dataset — a portfolio spanning traditional and web3-native players. Sources are linked on each profile; this is notable-backer data from disclosed rounds, not a complete cap table.

Key people

Masayoshi Son — founder, chairman & CEO, SoftBank Group ↗

Portfolio

SoFi San Francisco, US · est. 2011 traditional

Greenwood Atlanta, US · est. 2020 traditional

Zopa Bank London, UK · est. 2020 traditional

OakNorth London, UK · est. 2015 traditional

Vivid Money Berlin, DE · est. 2019 traditional

Klarna Stockholm, SE · est. 2005 traditional

Ualá Buenos Aires, AR · est. 2017 traditional

Banco Inter Belo Horizonte, BR · est. 2015 traditional · 35M clients

bKash Dhaka, BD · est. 2011 traditional · 70M users

OPay Lagos, NG · est. 2018 traditional · 60M users

MetaMask Consensys (global) · est. 2016 web3-native

Paytm Noida, IN · est. 2010 traditional

Frequent co-investors

Firms appearing alongside SoftBank in the same neobanks' disclosed rounds.

Ant Group · 2 shared Silver Lake · 2 shared Ribbit Capital · 1 shared Tencent · 1 shared Sequoia Capital · 1 shared GIC · 1 shared Allianz X · 1 shared Augmentum Fintech · 1 shared Goldman Sachs · 1 shared Greenoaks · 1 shared

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