SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program
VC Fund
Scottsdale, United States
SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program is a VC fund in Scottsdale focused on Apps and FinTech. The SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge program, in partnership with Speedinvest, promotes diversity in tech and entrepreneurship by partnering underrepresented founders with the capital, tools, and network they need to scale their business. This year’s program is open to European founders, with participation from some of Europe’s leading seed investors:Breega, Kindred, Cherry Ventures, and firstminute Capital.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 46%
Last updated:
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Industries SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program invests in
Stages SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program invests in
Countries SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Apps 2 (15%)
- FinTech 2 (15%)
- Software 2 (15%)
- Health Care 2 (15%)
- Financial Services 2 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (62%)
- Non-equity Assistance 3 (23%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 4 (31%)
- United Kingdom 3 (23%)
- Germany 2 (15%)
- Kenya 1 (8%)
Investments
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Caldo Restaurant Technologies is a robotics company that provides kitchen automation technology. OCTO, their initial product, is an automated makeline that handles the "last-mile of cooking." In a nutshell, the system acts as a robotic helper for kitchen personnel, handling ready-to-eat items, processing incoming orders, and autonomouslypreparing bespoke meals in a safe, timely, and waste-free manner. Their Runner.OS software controls incoming orders automatically, so that stations that would usually require an extra pair of hands are never overcrowded. | $2M / Seed / Apr 04, 2023 | |
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Kwara is transforming credit unions into modern digital financial institutions, powered by an industry-leading core banking system and a modern mobile banking experience for credit union members. Backed by investors across Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA, Kwara currently serves 200+ SACCOs in Kenya, South Africa and the Philippines | $3M / Seed / Jan 16, 2023 | |
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Dedicated to your health. We're a digital healthcare startup on a worldwide mission to improve the lives of people with chronic conditions. We're really good at analyzing data and want to use this superpower to change healthcare for the better. There’s great potential within all the health data we're all already collecting aboutourselves. We at juli strive to bring it all together!juli was founded in 2020, right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by a group of people that wanted to use their knowledge about big data for a better cause. Some of the founders suffer from a chronic condition themselves and have been on the lookout for many years to find out what triggers episodes and what helps to get better. Learn more | $3.8M / Seed / Mar 03, 2022 | |
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Credrails delivers the infrastructure that connects bank, mobile money, and offline data into a single API, ensuring our customers have the foundation they need to power their own next-gen fintech solutions. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 21, 2022 | |
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Blloc is a manufacturer of smartphones used to offer simplified user experience and privacy control. It unifies online services into a single timeline for productivity and meaningful interactions helping customers to get a premium user interface and experience in a smartphone. | $2M / Seed / Jan 22, 2022 | |
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Fiat Republic aggregates multiple banks into a single API integration and unified compliance onboarding process, enabling crypto platforms to easily embed fiat payment flows into their tech stack. Fiat Republic's TradFi-regulated fiat-as-a-service platform makes it simple to integrate IBANs and virtual accounts in local currencies, local banktransfer rails (like SEPA, Faster Payments, Elixir, Pix etc), and real-time FX. | Non-equity Assistance / Dec 10, 2021 | |
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The Stack World is a news, events and connections company. | Non-equity Assistance / Dec 10, 2021 | |
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Dedicated to your health. We're a digital healthcare startup on a worldwide mission to improve the lives of people with chronic conditions. We're really good at analyzing data and want to use this superpower to change healthcare for the better. There’s great potential within all the health data we're all already collecting aboutourselves. We at juli strive to bring it all together!juli was founded in 2020, right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by a group of people that wanted to use their knowledge about big data for a better cause. Some of the founders suffer from a chronic condition themselves and have been on the lookout for many years to find out what triggers episodes and what helps to get better. Learn more | Non-equity Assistance / Dec 10, 2021 | |
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Kwara is transforming credit unions into modern digital financial institutions, powered by an industry-leading core banking system and a modern mobile banking experience for credit union members. Backed by investors across Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA, Kwara currently serves 200+ SACCOs in Kenya, South Africa and the Philippines | $4M / Seed / Dec 09, 2021 | |
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Pear Bio uses organ-on-a-chip and computer vision technology to recreate, visualize, and compute the human tumor microenvironment and its effects on cancer progression. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London. | $4.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 29, 2021 | |
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FAQ
What does SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program invest in?
SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program invests primarily in Apps, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Non-equity Assistance stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge Program closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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