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SoftBank top investor in India: Masayoshi Son

BENGALURU:

SoftBank

is the biggest foreign investor in India’s startup ecosystem, the Japanese conglomerate’s founder and CEO

Masayoshi Son

said on Friday at the Infinity Forum, a thought leadership forum on fintech..

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Son said that he had made a commitment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he would invest $5 billion in India, but in the last ten years, Softbank has already invested $14 billion. This year alone it has invested $3 billion.

“We are providers of about 10% of the funding to all unicorns in India,” Son said.

SoftBank’s investments in India include those in

Flipkart, Paytm, Swiggy

,

Zeta

, among others. “I believe in the future of India. I believe in the passion of young entrepreneurs in India. I tell the young people in India—let’s make it happen, I will support,” he said.

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