SoftBank's Innovation Fund and Vision Fund have each invested $500m in delivery platform Rappi, whose investors also include Delivery Hero.

Internet and telecommunications group SoftBank is investing up to $1bn in Colombia-based logistics platform Rappi, it announced yesterday.

The corporate’s $5bn Innovation Fund, which it is currently in the process of raising, supplied half the capital while its Vision Fund provided the other $500m.

Founded in 2015, Rappi operates an on-demand delivery service that was present in 35 cities across Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay as well as its home country, as of the end of 2018.

The company…

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