Rob Lavine, News editor for Global Corporate Venturing, reviews the trends in venturing from 2018

SoftBank’s Vision expands

It is fair to say no VC investor – corporate or otherwise – has had as big a year as SoftBank Vision Fund’s 2018. The fund expanded from $97.7bn to $98.6bn over the course of the year, and though it is yet to reach that 12-figure targeted close, barely a week went by without it making a large investment of one kind or another.

The most notable of those deals included a $1.1bn investment in dynamic glass…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.