The
SOFTBANK Family
SOFTBANK China Venture Capital is affiliated with the
strongest, broadest family of Internet companies and
investors on the planet.
When an entrepreneur does business with SOFTBANK China Venture
Capital, he or she gets access to this network of
companies and affiliates worldwide. The SOFTBANK
affiliates have the ability to back a company from
seed-stage to global presence, and have an influence and
interest on the Internet unmatched by any other venture
capital fund or corporation.
Here are the main members of the SOFTBANK family of
affiliates:
SOFTBANK Venture Capital
www.sbvc.com:
Headquartered in Mountain
View, California, SOFTBANK
Venture Capital (SOFTBANK VC)
manages venture capital funds
focused primarily on
early-stage Internet
companies. SOFTBANK VC's
technology fund directors are
all experienced technology
leaders with prior operating
experience as founders of
early-stage companies, senior
managers of major technology
corporations, and leaders in
investment banking. SOFTBANK
VC's past and current
portfolios include public
Internet companies such as
Critical Path, E-LOAN,
GeoCities, Interliant,
MessageMedia, Net2Phone, and
TheStreet.com. (You are now
on our site!)
SOFTBANK
Capital Partners
www.sbcap.com:
SOFTBANK Capital Partners
(SBCP) is a $1.25 billion
Internet venture investment
group sponsored by SOFTBANK
CORP. Led by partners
Masayoshi Son, SOFTBANK's
Founder, President and CEO;
Ronald Fisher, Vice-Chairman
of SOFTBANK Holdings Inc.;
Charles R. Lax, a co-founder
of SOFTBANK Technology
Ventures; and Bill Burnham,
former Credit Suisse First
Boston Corp. e-commerce
analyst, SBCP focuses on late
stage, pre-IPO (mezzanine)
and post IPO (PIPE)
investments. Portfolio
investments of SBCP include
Buy.com, Global Sports
(Nasdaq: GSPT), 1-800-Flowers.com
(Nasdaq: FLWS), OptiMark
Technologies, PeoplePC,
SmartAge, Webhire (Nasdaq:
HIRE) and Webvan (Nasdaq:
WBVN). SBCP is headquartered
in Newton Center, MA.
SOFTBANK
CORP.
www.softbank.com:
SOFTBANK CORP. has emerged
as one of the world's leading
Internet market forces.
Through its ownership
positions in more than 100
Internet companies and its
unique Internet-zaibatsu
management concept, it is
able to create market synergies for its
family of companies on a
global scale. In Japan its
activities encompass
distribution, publishing,
Internet media platforms, a
broad range of e-commerce
businesses, and joint
ventures with companies such as Microsoft, Cisco
Systems, Yahoo!, the National
Association of Security
Dealers, and many other
market leaders. In the U.S.,
SOFTBANK is the largest
shareholder in leading
Internet companies such as
Yahoo!, E*TRADE and ZDNet,
and in Europe has established
Internet joint ventures with
News Corp and Vivendi.
News Corp/ePartners
www.epartners.com:
The News Corporation
Limited (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A;
ASX: NCP, NCPDP; LSE: NEWCP)
is one of the world's largest
media companies with total
assets as of December 31,
1998 of approximately US$36
billion and total annual
revenues of approximately
US$14 billion. News
Corporation's diversified
global operations in the
United States, Canada, the
United Kingdom, Australia,
Latin America and the Pacific
Basin include the production
and distribution of motion
pictures and television
programming; television,
satellite and cable
broadcasting; the publication
of newspapers, magazines,
books; the production and
distribution of promotional
and advertising products and
services; the development of
digital broadcasting; the
development of conditional
access and subscriber
management systems; and the
creation and distribution of
popular on-line programming.
Moving to expand its already
significant presence in the
emerging digital industry,
News Corp. announced in April
1999 that it has formed a new
company, e-partners, to take
equity stakes in new media
opportunities, including the
internet, interactive
television, and wireless
communication. The company
has a $300 million equity
capital base provided by News
Corporation.
@VISO
www.atviso.com:
Atviso is a joint venture
between Vivendi and SOFTBANK,
aimed at helping U.S.
Internet companies gain rapid
market entry into continental
Europe.
Vivendi
www.vivendi.com:
With operations in 100
countries, 260,000 employees,
and net sales of 39 billion
euros, VIVENDI is a leader in
the communications sector,
and is currently expanding
its role in the
environemental services area.
eVentures
:
eVentures is a joint
venture between SOFTBANK and
epartners, a venture capital
fund founded by media and
communications giant News
Corp. eVentures' mission is
to bring successful Internet
companies to the UK,
Australia, New Zealand and
India. Its first incubator is
located in the Chelsea
district of London.
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