Robert Kaplan
Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Lead investments across ML/AI, consumer enablement, and consumer internet. Investments include: AccelByte, Aleo, AlphaSense, bloXroute Labs, fabric, Labelbox, RunwayML, and Veho.
Investor
2024
AlphaSense is a platform harnessing AI to deliver insights, helping professionals make informed, impactful decisions.
Raised $1,420,053,806.00 from BDT & MSD Partners, Blue Owl, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, SoftBank Vision Fund, CapitalG, Alkeon Capital, Viking Global Investors and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Investor
2024
Runway is an applied AI research company that builds the next generation of creativity tools.
Raised $236,500,000.00 from Rogue VC, Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Google, Amplify Partners, Lukas Biewald, Howie Liu, Lux Capital, Jay Simons and Compound.
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2022
BloXroute is a blockchain distribution network that helps in scaling blockchains to thousands of transactions/second on-chain.
Raised $90,590,000.00 from Dragonfly, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jane Street Capital, RockawayX, Blindspot, GSR, ParaFi Capital, Flow Traders, SoftBank Vision Fund and Portofino Technologies.
Board Member
2021
fabric offers a headless eCommerce platform that enables companies to grow their online presence via its API-driven modular system.
Raised $293,500,000.00 from Sierra Ventures, Forerunner, Redpoint, Norwest Venture Partners, Glynn Capital Management, Stripes and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Board Member
2020
Labelbox is a data-centric AI platform for building intelligent applications.
Raised $188,900,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Snowpoint Ventures, Databricks Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Catherine Wood and B Capital.
Board Member
2022
Reinventing delivery and returns for the e-commerce era.
Raised $299,162,657.00 from General Catalyst, Tiger Global Management, Bling Capital, Construct Capital, Origin Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund, Industry Ventures, Plug and Play and MANTIS Venture Capital.
Investor
2022
Aleo offers a platform for building private applications using zero-knowledge technology and a specialized programming language called Leo.
Principal
2018 - 2021
Investments: Pendo, Fabric, Clari, Labelbox, Yalo, Hypersonix, Odeko, Thankful AI (acq. Gladly), and Turing.
B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.