Investments · Software (mapping)
SoftBank Vision Fund leads $164 million round in mapping platform Mapbox
- Investor
- SoftBank Vision Fund (SoftBank Group) (Tokyo)
- In
- Mapbox, San Francisco, California
- Value
- $164M Series C
- Status
- Announced on October 10, 2017; the round has closed.
- Date
- 2017-10-10
SoftBank Vision Fund led a $164 million Series C round in Mapbox, a mapping and location data platform with offices in San Francisco and Washington, DC. Mapbox planned to expand into cars, virtual and augmented reality, and Asia.
Why it matters
The round gave the Vision Fund a stake in location data, a building block for navigation and self-driving services.
Sources
Kakehashi M&A News home
