Sun Zhengyi revealed that he intends to create another science and technology investment fund. This is only a few months before Softbank completed the establishment of a vision fund with a scale of about 654.38+000 billion US dollars. Earlier, many sources said that Softbank was conducting early planning consultations to raise a second and possibly larger technology fund.
"The Vision Fund is only the first step, and 65,438+00 trillion yen (about 88 billion US dollars) is simply not enough," he said in an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review. "We will rapidly expand the scale. Vision funds 2, 3 and 4 will be established every two or three years. "
Sun Zhengyi said that Softbank is establishing a mechanism to increase its financing capacity from 10 trillion yen to 20 trillion yen, until 100 trillion yen (about 880 billion US dollars). He said that Softbank is likely to invest in 1000 companies in the future.
A Softbank spokesman confirmed that Masayoshi Son did make the above statement, and he was discussing his investment plan extensively.
In the past year, Sun Zhengyi made a series of bold and sometimes controversial investments in science and technology. At present, Vision Fund is negotiating with Uber, and plans to spend about $654.38+0 billion to acquire shares of Uber investors and employees.
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