The corporate divested about 10% of its shares in the NYSE-listed online marketplace having already sold almost $1.7bn in shares six months ago.

Telecommunications and internet conglomerate SoftBank has divested $1bn of shares in South Korea-based, New York-listed e-commerce group Coupang, according to a securities filing on Friday.

SoftBank Investment Advisers, the subsidiary that manages SoftBank’s Vision Funds, sold 50 million shares in the company for $20.87 apiece, leaving the firm with approximately 461 million. The news came after the corporate had unloaded $1.69bn of shares at $29.69 each in September 2021.

Founded in 2010, Coupang runs a digital marketplace that…

Subscribe to go deeper

GCV subscribers get access to all our proprietary data and deep-dive articles, as well as the global directory of CVC investors.



Not sure if you have a subscription?
Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.
Email LinkedIn