Funding Round: Post-IPO Equity (NVIDIA)
The source explicitly states that SoftBank's stake in Nvidia was $4 billion. The record claims 'raised: 4000000000' (which equals $4 billion) and 'date: 2017-05'. The source discusses this investment in the context of SoftBank's Vision Fund first close announcement, which occurred in May 2017 based on the article's reference to 'this weekend' and the Vision Fund timeline. The amount matches exactly ($4 billion = 4,000,000,000), and the timeframe aligns with May 2017. While the source doesn't explicitly state this as a 'Post-IPO Equity' round in those exact terms, it describes SoftBank acquiring a stake in the already-public Nvidia company, which is consistent with post-IPO equity investment.
Our claim
entire record- Company
- NVIDIA
- Company
- NVIDIA
- Name
- Post-IPO Equity
- Date
- May 2017
- Raised
- 4000000000
- Raised Low
- 4000000000
- Raised High
- 4000000000
- Instrument
- equity
- Lead Investor
- SoftBank Vision Fund
- Notes
- SoftBank Vision Fund acquired a $4 billion, 4.9% stake in NVIDIA, making it the fourth-largest shareholder. SoftBank later sold this position in January 2019 for approximately $3.3 billion profit.
Source evidence
1 src · 1 checkNoteThe source explicitly states that SoftBank's stake in Nvidia was $4 billion. The record claims 'raised: 4000000000' (which equals $4 billion) and 'date: 2017-05'. The source discusses this investment in the context of SoftBank's Vision Fund first close announcement, which occurred in May 2017 based on the article's reference to 'this weekend' and the Vision Fund timeline. The amount matches exactly ($4 billion = 4,000,000,000), and the timeframe aligns with May 2017. While the source doesn't explicitly state this as a 'Post-IPO Equity' round in those exact terms, it describes SoftBank acquiring a stake in the already-public Nvidia company, which is consistent with post-IPO equity investment.