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SoftBank

1-7-1 Kaigan, Tokyo Port City Takeshiba Office Tower, Tokyo, Minato-ku, 105-7529, Japan

Overview

SoftBank is developing a self-driving bus project that recently pulled in $4.6M. The funding is intended to accelerate the project toward commercialization in 2020. The article links the financing specifically to pushing the project into commercial deployment rather than to broader corporate operations. No operational metrics, revenue figures, or user counts were provided. The report frames the raise as a targeted capital injection for the self-driving bus initiative.

Total raised
$5M
Funding rounds
1
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Mar 2017

Industries

  • Banking
  • E-Commerce
  • Internet
  • Mobile
  • Telecommunications
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Mar 2017

    $5M

Team

  • Masayoshi Son

    Founder and CEO

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  • Yasuyuki Imai

    Representative Director & COO

  • Makizono Keiichi

    Executive Officer & CIO

  • Fumihiro Aono

    Corporate Officer, Human Resources