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Also known as SoftBank Group Corp., SoftBank

Japanese company

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SoftBank Group is an active company established in 1981. Its legal name is ソフトバンクグループ株式会社, and it is located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The organization employs 68,402 people and operates within the Japanese jurisdiction.

Financial records indicate total assets of 31,180,466,000,000 and total equity of 6,273,022,000,000. The company reported total revenue of 9,158,765,000,000, operating income of 1,303,801,000,000, and a net profit of 1,474,430,000,000. It maintains an official website and has 14,800 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 28 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, GLEIF, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Key facts

Native name
ソフトバンクグループ株式会社
Romanized name
SofutoBanku Gurūpu Kabushiki gaisha
Formerly
SoftBank Corp. (1981-2015)
Company type
Public
Traded as
TYO : 9984 TOPIX Core30 component Nikkei 225 component
Isin
JP3436100006
Industry
Conglomerate
Founded
3 September 1981 ; 44 years ago ( 1981-09-03 )
Founder
Masayoshi Son
Headquarters
Tokyo PortCity Takeshiba, Minato, Tokyo , Japan
Key people
Masayoshi Son (chairman and CEO)
Products
Investment Telecommunications Internet service Internet of Things Artificial Intelligence Robotics E-commerce
Revenue
¥ 6.76 trillion (2023)
Operating income
¥57.8 billion (2023)
Net income
¥209.2 billion (2023)
Aum
¥347.7 billion (2023)
Total assets
¥46.72 trillion (2023)
Total equity
¥13.24 trillion (2023)

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Company

Jurisdiction
JP
Headquarters
東京都 港区, JP

via GLEIF

Research organization · ROR

Type
Company
Founded
1981
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Status
Active

GRID grid.497125.c · ISNI 0000 0004 1782 9384

Official website

ソフトバンクグループ株式会社

ソフトバンクグループ株式会社(代表取締役 会長兼社長執行役員:孫 正義、英文社名:SoftBank Group Corp.)の公式サイトです。当社の理念・ビジョン・戦略、企業情報、株主・投資家(IR)情報、事業セグメント・グループ企業、サステナビリティ(ESG)情報をご覧いただけます。

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Encyclopedic overview

SoftBank Group Corp. (ソフトバンクグループ株式会社, SofutoBanku Gurūpu Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational investment holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, that focuses on investment management. The group primarily invests in companies operating in technology that offer goods and services to customers in a multitude of markets and industries ranging from the internet to automation. With over $100 billion in capital at its onset, SoftBank's Vision Fund is the world's largest technology-focused venture capital fund. Fund investors included sovereign wealth funds from countries in the Middle East.

The company is known for the leadership of its controversial founder and largest shareholder Masayoshi Son. Its investee companies, subsidiaries and divisions, including several unprofitable unicorns, operate in robotics, artificial intelligence, software, logistics, transportation, biotechnology, robotic process automation, proptech, real estate, hospitality, broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, information technology, finance, media and marketing, and other areas. Among its international stockholdings are stakes in Arm (semiconductors), Alibaba (e-commerce), OYO Rooms (hospitality), WeWork (coworking) and Deutsche Telekom (telecommunications). SoftBank Corporation, its spun-out affiliate and former flagship business, is the third-largest wireless carrier in Japan, with 45.621 million subscribers as of March 2021.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SoftBank Group” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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