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SoftBank backs Cloudbeds as hospitality industry awakens from its COVID slumber

The savage genius of SoftBank funding competitors

Immigrant founders smartphone growth SEO tactics SoftBanks financials and AR tech

How to lose money SoftBank edition

Latin America roundup: Softbank adds 1B Stori raises 10M and Grow Mobility puts on the brakes

Softbanks next bet: 940M into autonomous delivery startup Nuro

General Atlantic buys out SoftBanks 15 stake in edtech Kahoot now valued at about 152M vs the 215M SoftBank ponied up 2 years ago

How Nuro plans to spend Softbanks 940 million

WeWorks bankruptcy is proof that its core business never actually worked

Brazilian lending company Creditas raises 255 million as Latin Americas fintech explosion continues

Fintech giant Klarna raises 639M at a 456B valuation amid massive momentum in the US

SoftBanks debt obsession

Cruise will launch robotaxi service in San Francisco but not this year

Internet connectivity projects unite as Alphabet spinout Loon grabs 125M from SoftBanks HAPSMobile

Equity Monday: China hates crypto and the Vision Funds vision lives on

Grocery delivery startup Honestbee is running out of money and trying to sell

Grab plans to raise 2B more this year to fund an acquisition spree in Southeast Asia

Indias budget hotel network unicorn OYO expands into China

Lucky coffee unicorn stumbles and Sam Altmans YC wager

Arms gains are SoftBanks gains

Zeta in talks with SoftBank to raise at over 1 billion valuation

Indias OYO enters Japan in partnership with SoftBank

SoftBank cautions longer startup winter because unicorn founders are unwilling to cut valuations

Rakuten has SoftBank in its sights

Chinese online learning app Zuoyebang raises 750M

Startups Weekly: SoftBanks second act

Another huge funding round gives Veho room to deliver

UKs Atom Learning picks up 25M from SoftBank for an AIbased online learning platform aimed at elementary schoolaged students

Indias Cars24 a usedvehicle sales platform raises 400M now at a 33B valuation to double down on growth

VCs unfazed by Chinese regulatory shakeups so far

Turkeys first decacorn: Trendyol raises 15B at a 165B valuation

SoftBank sinks 200M into Andela propels company into unicorn territory

Vision Fund startups Fanatics and Coupang unite to sell US sports merch in Korea

Grab raises more money again

How Chinas regulatory crackdown whomped Vision Fund 1s returns

Zymergen lands 400 million more for its genetically altered microbes led by SoftBank Vision Fund

Rappi and Oyo pare staff as Vision Fund companies trim costs target profits

Sam Altmans bet against Slack

SoftBank is considering taking a majority stake in WeWork

SoftBank to cut startup investments by more than half this year

Clutter confirms SoftBankled 200M investment for its ondemand storage service

Equity Monday: Elon Musk reinvents corporate governance

CommerceIQ gets its horn as capital continues to flow into ecommerce infrastructure startups

GetYourGuide picks up 484M passes 25M tickets sold through its tourism activity app

Ondemand dog walking app Wag raises 300 million from SoftBank Vision Fund

Plume raises 300M as it passes 12B devices in 35M homes using its smart WiFi service

Sales readiness platform MindTickle raises 100 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

Khashoggis fate shows the flip side of the surveillance state

Biotech holding company Roivant Sciences raised 200M in funding at a whopping 7B valuation

Unicorn layoffs keep piling up as the economy gets worse