Mpabox, a location services provider for app developers, took its total funding to nearly $230m with a series C round led by SoftBank Vision Fund.

Telecommunications group SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a $164m round on Wednesday for Mapbox, the US-based creator of a location and mapping platform for software developers.

Venture capital firms Foundry Group, DBL Partners and Thrive Capital also participated in the round along with DFJ Growth, the growth-stage arm of VC firm DFJ.

Mapbox provides map, direction and location search services, sourced from 200 million miles of anonymised sensor data, for a network of 900,000 registered developers to use in mobile, web,…