This morning, Korean e-commerce company , which some have dubbed the Amazon of Korea, a $2 billion investment from the .
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Coupang, which was founded in 2010 by Harvard business grad , has raised a known total of from its investors including a from Softbank in 2015. The company is now valued at $9 billion, post-money.
Lately, it feels like we wake up every morning to a new Softbank Vision Fund investment. Just last week announced a from the Vision Fund, and at the beginning of the month, food robotics company scored a $375 million investment. It’s hard to keep track of where the gargantuan group has placed its bets over the past year, so Crunchbase News decided to break it down. Take a look:

The fund, which invests with checks of $100 million or more, has partially fueled Crunchbase News’s obsession with supergiant rounds. And its effect on valuations is clear, of the companies listed above, 13 received the Vision Fund investment at pre-money valuations of more than $1.4 billion. Its giant war chest of capital, which includes some questionable support from Saudi Arabia, has the potential to affect competition in markets all over the world, including India and in China, where capital-intensive growth strategies are the name of the game.
We’ll keep updating this chart as the vision fund continues to put its money to work.
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