New Global Investment Landscape: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son Proposes Super Fund Concept

In May 2015, SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son first floated the idea of establishing a massive global investment fund focused on technology and future industries at an investor conference. This idea later evolved into the iconic $100 billion Vision Fund.

The proposal of this concept signaled that world-renowned financial consortiums and investment firms were beginning to bet on the disruptive technologies of the Future World on an unprecedented scale. SoftBank's fund model, which aimed to consolidate "unicorn" companies, profoundly impacted the financing ecosystem for tech startups by reallocating global capital.