Episode 222: The SoftBank Vision Fund with Tim Culpan by analyseasia published on 2017-12-04T08:02:40Z Tim Culpan from Bloomberg joined us in a two part conversation on the high impact news from Asia's movers and shakers. In the second part of our conversation, Tim covered Japan's SoftBank US$100B Vision Fund and discussed the mission, vision and structure behind this massive fund that is poised to overshadow all the venture capital and private equity funds. We discussed the investments made by SoftBank Vision Fund so far and its implications to startup unicorns such as Uber and Flipkart. Last but not least, we explored the implications of the fund to the global startup ecosystem out there. Genre Business Comment by Rick Lee The scale of SoftBank's US$100B fund just showed how the Silicon Valley VCs and US private equity funds are totally out of the league when it comes to tech investments. 2017-12-13T17:29:12Z Comment by bujingyun Finally an Asian perspective on SoftBank instead of the Western media propagating their own narrative. 2017-12-13T17:27:54Z Comment by wangwu Tim is absolutely spot on with the SoftBank Vision Fund on how the companies should not be complacent after they received money from them. 2017-12-13T17:27:17Z