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Robert Kaplan

Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund

New York, New York

Overview 

Robert Kaplan is a Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund in New York, with a background as an investor and board member in various tech companies. He holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has served in key roles at firms like AlphaSense and B Capital Group.

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.

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