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Soft Bank $ 89.7b , Tokyo , Japan

Japanese conglomerate SoftBank is well known for its investments in startup technology companies , with its portfolio including the likes of ByteDance ( the owner of TikTok ) and Uber . Those investments were part of its Vision Fund , with the latest iteration of the investment vehicle promising to focus on AI . Less successful bets on companies such as WeWork led CEO Masoyashi Son to refer to some of its investments as “ foolish ”. NOVEMBER 2020