Company
SoftBank Group
SoftBank Group, Japanese multinational conglomerate and investment holding company.
- HQ
- Tokyo, Japan
- Status
- public (TYO:9984)
Verified profile
1
Sources on record
0
Tracked changes
Updated recently
Last verified change
Key facts
HQ
Tokyo, Japan
Focus
Japanese investment holding conglomerate
Focus
Major robotics and AI investor
Investments
Arm, Vision Fund
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Data & sources
- Web sources1
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Relationships
Safety record
No incidents on record for SoftBank Group.
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Recent coverage
SoftBank Group in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Partnerships (2)
- Skild AI Series A (2024) with Skild AI, Amazon, Carnegie Mellon University, Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Bezos Expeditionsinvestment
- Wayve Series C (2024) with Wayve, NVIDIA, Eclipse Ventures, Microsoftinvestment
Acquisitions (3)
- acquired Boston Dynamicsfull acquisition
- acquired ABB Roboticsfull acquisitionannounced2025-10-08
- acquired Berkshire Greyfull acquisition2023-03-24
Sources (1)
Common questions
- What is SoftBank Group?
- SoftBank Group, Japanese multinational conglomerate and investment holding company.
- Where is SoftBank Group based?
- SoftBank Group is based in Tokyo, Japan.
- What does SoftBank Group make?
- SoftBank Group has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. SoftBank Group builds physical robots.
- Is SoftBank Group safe?
- SoftBank Group has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-04
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-04
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for SoftBank Group.In the press
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- RSS feed: /companies/softbank-group/feed.xml
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- REST API: /v1/companies/e6707518-29cb-4bcd-baae-f6e93ebc46ff
- Revision history: /companies/softbank-group/history
- Data documentation: /data
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DEPLOY Intelligence Score
14.5/ 100
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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Dimension breakdown
Safety Record
Market Presence
Funding Health
IP Activity
Deployment Scale
Hiring Signal
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Last computed: Jul 3, 2026
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