Company
SoftBank Group
TL;DR
SoftBank appears as the crucial capital provider enabling Grab's ecological release strategy.
SoftBank appears as the crucial capital provider enabling Grab's ecological release strategy. SoftBank invested $2 billion in Grab's Series B - the largest in Southeast Asian history - and $10 billion total. Having previously backed Didi Chuxing's defeat of Uber in China, SoftBank understood how to weaponize capital against Uber's global expansion.