Kentaro Matsui

Managing Partner, Asia at SoftBank Vision Fund

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Biography

Kentaro Matsui is a Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, based in the firm's Tokyo office, where his bio states he focuses on investment opportunities in Asia. Before his current role he worked at Mizuho Securities, where he advised on SoftBank's investments in Vodafone Japan, Sprint and Arm. Reporting in 2020 described him as concentrating on Asia-based financial, healthcare and logistics technology deals, with Didi Chuxing, Manbang Group and Ping An Healthcare Management among his portfolio. He has since been quoted for the Vision Fund on investments including AI Medical Service and QuEra Computing.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

AI Medical ServiceQuEra ComputingDidi ChuxingManbang GroupPing An Healthcare Management

Career Timeline

2020
Named to a senior advisory post to enhance the Vision Fund's investment strategy, reported June 9.
2022
Quoted for SoftBank Vision Fund 2 on AI Medical Service's Series C financing.
2025
Quoted for SoftBank Investment Advisers on QuEra Computing's $230 million financing.

Sources & References

SoftBank Vision Fund - Kentaro Matsui ↗SoftBank Investment Advisers - Vision Fund Team ↗Global Venturing - SoftBank names two senior officers (June 2020) ↗Industry Europe - SoftBank invests EUR 59m in AI cancer-detecting technology ↗QuEra Computing - $230M financing press release ↗