WeWork stock starts trading, two years after an aborted IPOThe earlier effort collided with concerns about WeWork's breakneck growth, its huge losses and the alarming management style of its co-foun...
22 Oct, 2021, 11.36 AM IST
Revamped WeWork rises in Nasdaq debutShares of the venture, revamped with new corporate leaders, shot up nearly 10% to $11.39 shortly after midday, giving it a market value of ...
21 Oct, 2021, 11.58 PM IST
SoftBank Vision Fund invested $2 billion into India startups this year: CEO Rajeev Misra“The key is to find interesting companies where we like the founder and the valuation,” SoftBank Vision Fund CEO Rajeev Misra says, adding ...
04 Jun, 2021, 01.55 PM IST
Softbank eyes return to FlipkartThree years after SoftBank sold its stake in Flipkart for $4 billion, the two companies could be headed for a $600-700 million reunion, and...
04 Jun, 2021, 11.15 AM IST
WeWork’s plan to go public unlikely to hit India opsJust like in China and Japan, the office space company’s operations in India are franchised to third parties.
30 Mar, 2021, 11.59 AM IST
Adam Neumann's final WeWork act: helping SoftBank's SPAC dealNeumann also stands to benefit from the SPAC deal as he still has a roughly 10% stake in WeWork, worth around $790 million.
30 Mar, 2021, 11.49 AM IST
WeWork attempts to go public again, this time through a SPACWeWork is merging with BowX Acquisition, a SPAC, in a transaction that would value the embattled communal office-space company at $9 billio...
26 Mar, 2021, 05.20 PM IST
View: Can Masa Son outshine SPAC superstar Chamath Palihapitiya?SoftBank managed to raise only $600 million last year in the US SPAC boom. Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist and social influencer...
04 Mar, 2021, 07.31 PM IST
ETtech Morning Dispatch on 29 Jan. 2021: Top tech news to start your dayFrom the rise and fall of ByteDance in the country to Indian punters getting onto the GameStop gravy train, here's a look at the top tech n...
29 Jan, 2021, 08.48 AM IST
SoftBank Vision Fund will invest early; back enterprise, SaaS companies: Rajeev MisraSoftBank Vision Fund may fund SaaS firm MindTickle; expects some portfolio firms to list next year
12 Nov, 2020, 05.00 AM IST
SoftBank, armed with billions in cash, joins blank check bingeSoftBank is now looking at ways to deploy the cash it’s raised, and has recently launched an asset management unit that’s putting money int...
14 Oct, 2020, 09.00 AM IST
SoftBank’s Vision Fund plans to unveil a blank-check companySoftBank’s experiments beyond its traditional expertise have spooked some investors, including earlier this year when the company traded bi...
13 Oct, 2020, 08.55 AM IST