SoftBank's Collaborative Insurtech & Real Estate Tech Investment Strategy - CB Insights Research

SoftBank Group has made several big name investments across insurtech and real estate, including deals to WeWork, OYO Rooms, PolicyBazaar, and Lemonade. SoftBank wants its portfolio companies to get along. Since 2014, SoftBank has been investing aggressively in companies modernizing insurance and real estate. Armed with its massive $98B Vision Fund, it hasn't been shy to write huge checks to startups disrupting these areas. The average size of Vision Fund-backed equity deals to insurtech and real estate startups exceeds $400M, and the Vision Fund has accounted for 8% of all deals by SoftBank Group in these areas since 2014.