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SoftBank Vision Fund invests $110 million in Energy Vault

August 14, 2019
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Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank.

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SoftBank’s Vision Fund announced its first investment in an energy company on Thursday, marking a shift for the $100 billion fund that has made its name pouring money into big tech companies like Uber, WeWork and Slack.

The Vision Fund said it completed a $110 million investment in Swiss start-up Energy Vault, which creates renewable energy storage products. Energy Vault’s system uses recycled concrete blocks built into a tower that can store and release energy.

“Energy Vault solves a long-standing and complex problem of how to store renewable energy at scale,” Akshay Naheta, managing partner for SoftBank Investment Advisers said in a press release.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund, which launched in 2017, has disrupted the venture capital model by injecting billions of dollars into start-ups, driving up their valuations. The Fund said last week its operating profit had jumped 66% year-on-year in the last quarter, thanks to valuation increases companies like food delivery platform Doordash and Indian hotel-booking firm Oyo. It said its $66.3 billion investment in 81 tech firms is now worth $82.billion.

The Vision Fund’s portfolio has so far been weighted heavily toward tech companies focused on transportation and logistics like Uber and its Southeast Asian rival Grab, as well as enterprise firms like Slack and “frontier tech” names like British chip designer Arm. In July, SoftBank launched a $108 billion-Vision Fund 2 that will target companies developing artificial intelligence.

Energy Vault CEO and co-founder Robert Piconi said Thursday the company is “thrilled to partner with SoftBank Vision Fund as we expand our global presence.”

Energy Vault did not disclose its valuation as part of the latest investment. The firm said it would use the $110 million to “accelerate global deployment” of its storage technology. Andreas Hansson, partner for SoftBank Investment Advisers, will join Energy Vault’s board of directors as part of the investment.

– CNBC’s Ryan Browne contributed reporting



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