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Total amount raised
$26.7 Billion
Latest funding date
2026-09-04
Location
SoftBank has ten bond and hybrid issuances, a March 2022 bond and nine issuances since November 2024, totaling about USD 26.7 billion. The latest is a JPY 1 trillion (about USD 6.35 billion), 4.75 percent bond priced September 4, 2026, sold mainly to individual investors in Japan. SoftBank raises capital through bonds instead of funding rounds.
What Is SoftBank?
SoftBank Group Corp. is a Tokyo-based investment holding company founded September 3, 1981 by Masayoshi Son.
Through SoftBank Vision Fund 2 it agreed in February 2026 to invest USD 30 billion more in OpenAI, taking its cumulative OpenAI investment to USD 64.6 billion.
How Much Funding Has SoftBank Raised?
- Post-IPO Debt
- Amount Raised: JPY 100,000,000,000 (approximately USD 843,300,000)
- Date: March 2022
- Lead Investors: Not publicly disclosed
- Motivation Behind the Round: To diversify financing.
- Post-IPO Debt (64th Domestic Straight Bond, Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS Bond)
- Amount Raised: JPY 350,000,000,000 (approximately USD 2,277,000,000)
- Date: November 2024 (November 27, 2024)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Participants: Japanese individual investors
- Motivation Behind the Round: Bond carries 3.150 percent, matures December 11, 2031.
- Post-IPO Debt (65th and 66th Domestic Straight Bonds)
- Amount Raised: JPY 620,000,000,000 (approximately USD 4,145,300,000; the JPY 600 billion 65th series at 3.340 percent due May 2, 2030, sold as a HAWKS retail bond, and the JPY 20 billion 66th series at 3.336 percent due April 24, 2030)
- Date: 2025 (issue month not stated in the company's bond listing)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Motivation Behind the Round: Use of proceeds not stated.
- Post-IPO Debt (Foreign-Currency Hybrid Notes, Three Tranches)
- Amount Raised: USD 2,000,000,000 plus EUR 750,000,000 (approximately USD 873,100,000); the tranches were EUR 750 million 6.500 percent, USD 900 million 7.625 percent and USD 1,100 million 8.250 percent hybrid notes due 2062, 2061 and 2065
- Date: October 2025 (October 23, 2025)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Motivation Behind the Round: Use of proceeds not stated.
- Post-IPO Debt (67th Domestic Straight Bond, Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS Bond)
- Amount Raised: JPY 500,000,000,000 (approximately USD 3,206,900,000)
- Date: December 2025 (offering November 27 to December 5, 2025; issued December 8, 2025)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Participants: Mainly individual investors in Japan
- Motivation Behind the Round: Repayment of borrowings; 3.98 percent coupon.
- Post-IPO Debt (8th Domestic Hybrid Bonds)
- Amount Raised: JPY 200,000,000,000 (approximately USD 1,256,900,000)
- Date: April 2026 (April 10, 2026)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Motivation Behind the Round: Initial coupon of 4.970 percent.
- Post-IPO Debt (Foreign-Currency Senior Notes, Six Tranches)
- Amount Raised: USD 1,500,000,000 plus EUR 1,750,000,000 (approximately USD 2,047,000,000); the tranches were USD 400 million 7.625 percent due 2029, USD 600 million 8.250 percent due 2031, USD 500 million 8.500 percent due 2036, EUR 700 million 6.375 percent due 2030, EUR 600 million 7.000 percent due 2032 and EUR 450 million 7.375 percent due 2034, all at par, listed on the Singapore Exchange, rated BB+ by S&P)
- Date: April 2026 (priced April 16, 2026; issued April 22, 2026)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Motivation Behind the Round: Redemption of foreign-currency senior notes; partial repayment of the OpenAI bridge loan.
- Post-IPO Debt (9th Domestic Hybrid Notes for Individual Investors)
- Amount Raised: JPY 260,000,000,000 (approximately USD 1,617,200,000; per the June 5, 2026 final-terms release)
- Date: June 2026 (June 19, 2026)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Participants: Individual investors in Japan
- Motivation Behind the Round: Replaces hybrid notes callable 2027; 5.12 percent, 50 percent equity credit.
- Post-IPO Debt (68th and 69th Domestic Straight Bonds)
- Amount Raised: JPY 90,000,000,000 (approximately USD 566,600,000; the JPY 80 billion three-year 68th series at 3.270 percent due August 3, 2029 and the JPY 10 billion five-year 69th series at 3.886 percent due August 4, 2031, rated A by JCR)
- Date: August 2026 (August 4, 2026)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Participants: Institutional investors in Japan
- Motivation Behind the Round: Redemption of a maturing domestic bond.
- Post-IPO Debt (70th Domestic Straight Bond, Fukuoka SoftBank HAWKS Bond)
- Amount Raised: JPY 1,000,000,000,000 (approximately USD 6,346,000,000)
- Date: September 2026 (priced September 4, 2026; issue date September 17, 2026)
- Lead Investors: Not applicable (public offering)
- Participants: Mainly individual investors in Japan
- Motivation Behind the Round: Redemption of bonds and part of the ABB robotics acquisition; matures 2033.
Total Amount Raised: About USD 26,679,300,000 across ten issuances: USD 3,500,000,000 (3.5 billion) dollar notes, JPY 3,120,000,000,000 (3.12 trillion) yen bonds and hybrids, and EUR 2,500,000,000 (2.5 billion) euro notes. Yen and euro amounts equal about USD 20,259,200,000 and USD 2,920,100,000 at the Federal Reserve H.10 rate. Current Valuation: Not captured here. As of September 2026, the latest issuance is the JPY 1 trillion 70th bond.
Key Investors
- Individual Investors
- Details: Buy HAWKS bonds and hybrids.
- Investment Focus Areas: Yen bonds.
- Notable Investments: Not applicable.
- Institutional Investors
- Details: Bought the 68th and 69th bonds.
- Investment Focus Areas: Yen bonds.
- Notable Investments: Not applicable.
- International Noteholders
- Details: Bought the 2025 and 2026 notes.
- Investment Focus Areas: Foreign credit.
- Notable Investments: Not applicable.
- Public Market Shareholders
- Details: Shares fell about 40 percent from their peak by late 2025.
- Investment Focus Areas: Japanese equities.
- Notable Investments: Not applicable.
What's Next for SoftBank?
The 70th bond funds part of the USD 5.375 billion ABB Ltd robotics purchase, agreed October 8, 2025. It agreed to buy DigitalBridge Group for about USD 4.0 billion, and is paying the OpenAI commitment in three USD 10 billion tranches through October 2026.
SoftBank sold its Nvidia stake for USD 5.83 billion and part of its T-Mobile stake for USD 9.17 billion. It returned to profit in the quarter reported February 12, 2026, and SB Energy filed for a listing on September 2, 2026.
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