Meet the man behind $126 billion worth of deals

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SoftBank`s core businesses are telecommunications — within Japan and through its controlling stake in Sprint — but it also draws in revenue from other technology businesses.
The Japanese tech giant has made a number of prominent investments recently, including last year`s acquisition of U.
-based chip maker ARM for $32 billion, a $4 billion stake in U.
chip maker Nvidia this year, and a newly announced $2.
5 billion boost to Indian e-commerce player Flipkart.
That last stake comes from the massive SoftBank-led Vision Fund while existing investments in Nvidia and ARM are expected to also be offered to the fund.
The Vision Fund includes capital from SoftBank, Saudi Arabia`s sovereign wealth fund and tech firms Apple, Foxconn, Qualcomm and Sharp.
In May, the fund announced it had closed $93 billion in capital and that it hopes to raise $100 billion by the end of the year.
Even beyond that, SoftBank also has many investments separate from the Vision Fund.
For example, it acquired a controlling stake in U.
telecommunications firm Sprint for about $36 billion between 2012 and 2013.
Son was also an early investor in Yahoo and Alibaba, when the latter`s valuation was below $100 million according to investors.
Between 2012 and 2017, these were SoftBank`s top investments:.