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Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Softbank, leading VCs face lawsuit for “abetting” FTX fraud

Eighteen leading venture capital (VC) investment firms, including Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Sino Global and Softbank, have been named as defendants in a class-action lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for their links to the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.The lawsuit, filed on Aug.7, alleged

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SoftBank Vision Fund Records $32B Loss in Its Fiscal 2022 Year amid Weakening Economy

Vision Fund, SoftBank’s tech investment arm, posted a loss of 4.3 trillion yen for its fiscal year that ended March 31st.  SoftBank sustained a $32 billion record loss for its Vision Fund tech investment arm amid a challenging period for tech stocks. For its fiscal year ending March 31st, the Japanese investment holding company’s

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SoftBank & Ant Seek to Gradually Sell Paytm Stakes to Reduce Holdings in Firm

SoftBank & Ant Group previously offered to sell their Paytm stakes to Bharti Airtel founder-chairman Sunil Mittal. Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and China’s Ant Group currently seek to offload their stakes in Indian digital payments firm Paytm. According to reports, the duo is discussing the secondary sale of said stakes in the open market. SoftBank and Ant

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SoftBank, GGV Lead $66M Round for Web 3 Infrastructure Firm InfStones

InfStones offers an Amazon Web Services-like node management platform and application programming interface (API) for Web 3 developers. The platform provides access to protocol consensus and proof-of-stake staking benefits, plus the ability to run validator nodes, access on-chain data and build multi-chain decentralized applications. InfStones supports nodes on BNB Chain,

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Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank Lead $150M Raise for Metaverse Startup Improbable

"Giving people the tools to design their own metaverses at the scale that Improbable enables, with Web 3 interoperability and composability to expand on each other’s creations, will result in some truly groundbreaking virtual experiences,” said Chris Dixon, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, in the press release. Source

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