rajeev misra

rajeev misra, CEO at Softbank Investment Advisers, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s Softbank Group which manages the conglomerate’s twin Vision Funds, is stepping back from the executive function of Vision Fund 2, as he is expected to launch a new fund along with Saudi investors.

SoftBank Group has inducted Indian-origin rajeev misra into its Board of Directors. Misra, who is an alumnus of IIT-Delhi and is currently the CEO of SoftBank Investment Advisers, has been handpicked by Masayoshi Son, the CEO and Chairman of SoftBank.

The trio will tickle the audience’s funny bone with their funny punch lines and antics on stage.

Japan’s technology investment major SoftBank said that all portfolio companies in India, including troubled hospitality major Oyo, have money for the next two years to ride through the economic slump brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Vision Fund 1 right now has $15-billion capital in reserves for follow-on deals, while Vision Fund 2 is investing from a $5-billion corpus.

Al-Falah University faces government takeover with an administrator appointed following findings of statutory violations. This move comes after its association with doctors linked to a blast and a new law tightening private university oversight. While administration and finance are now state-managed, teaching faculty remain unaffected to ensure academic continuity for students.

Al-Falah University is undergoing a significant transformation as the government steps in following a scrutiny that unveiled substantial discrepancies in its operations. An experienced IAS officer has assumed the role of administrator to oversee financial management and operational governance, while a specialized team from JC Bose University will take charge of educational proceedings.

Top SoftBank executive rajeev misra had launched a smear campaign against two other high ranking executives of Indian origin — Nikesh Arora and Alok Sama — at the Japanese telecom and investment giant, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

This potentially places the veteran banker among those in line to succeed the Tokyo-based company’s founder Masayoshi Son.

SoftBank bought a 15% stake in Uber last year, making it the ride-hailing firm's biggest individual shareholder and triggering major governance changes.

A debt-trading executive and a finance veteran with stints at Deutsche Bank and UBS AG, Misra played a key role in putting together the ambitious Vision Fund along with Son, who wants to take massive bets on the future of technology.

When quizzed whether Mittal was the only telecom partner they had in mind, Misra clarified that SoftBank and its Vision Fund were "not evaluating or considering any telecom deals in India currently".

Japan’s tech investment major SoftBank is getting ready for a smaller Vision Fund 2, which could be half the size of the $100-billion Vision Fund 1, with a slower and a more studied pace of investments. The move comes after a record deal spree, which has seen it already invest over $76 billion in technology startups across the world over last two and half years.

LUCKNOW: Fourteen prominent members and office-bearers of the Nationalist Congress Party, Uttar Pradesh, announced their resignation on Thursday in protest against the nomination of Jagannath Misra as the incharge of the state unit.

This potentially places the veteran banker among those in line to succeed the Tokyo-based company’s founder Masayoshi Son.

A debt-trading executive and a finance veteran with stints at Deutsche Bank and UBS AG, Misra is reported to have been the brain behind the $100 billion Softbank Vision Fund.

SoftBank's Vision Fund would house 150 large technology companies in a year or two, where some would be of $100 billion in value like Uber, Didi and ByteDance (which owns TikTok), said rajeev misra, CEO of the largest technology investment vehicle. The $100-billion fund already has 75 unicorns within two years of operations.

Japanese telecom and internet major SoftBank is set to cross the $10-billion milestone in the country as it closes investments in two e-commerce ventures — baby care retailer Firstcry and sector-focused logistics company Delhivery. Both of these are expected to be in the $400-450 million range, helping the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son-led firm cross the promised number in less than five years after he announced in October 2014 that he will invest $10 billion over a decade.

A young girl faces the test of her life, ordered by the Supreme Court, in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the result will determine whether she is permitted to live with her ‘husband’ or will stay in Allahabad’s Nari Niketan.

Lead India winner R K Misra along with Rajeev Chandrashekhar, MP, Rajya Sabha, Mohandas Pai and Prasad Bidapa will organise a peace march.

The industry is upset that SoftBank is muscling in on deals and has voiced concerns that it’s ladling out more money than startups need or can absorb, pushing valuations too high.

We have a one-third ownership in Ola and if we do end up investing in Uber, the objective would be to get the advantage of the economies of scale and the dominance that comes with it.