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<ul class="summary-list"><li>SoftBank reported a $7.7 billion quarterly profit on Tuesday after a loss last year.</li><li>Gains in its tech bets come as it prepares to invest further in AI and eyes future IPOs.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/masayoshi-son-softbank-gambling-man-lionel-barber-technology-2024-9">SoftBank's</a> bets on AI and timely public listings have helped it post its biggest profits for two years, a year after posting losses in the billions.The Japanese technology conglomerate swung to a 1.18 trillion yen ($7.7 billion) profit on Tuesday. For the same period last year it reported a 931.1 billion yen ($6 billion) loss. Masayoshi Son's company — once associated with its notorious <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/weworks-nightmare-ipo">failed bet on WeWork</a> and other lossmaking startups — pointed to gains made across its Vision Funds, its huge investment vehicles with both public and private holdings in tech companies.Gains for its Vision Fund 1, a $98.6 billion investment vehicle launched in 2016 with backing from Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth funds, totaled $3 billion in the second quarter. It reported strong performances in listed companies in its portfolio, such as Didi Chuxing, a Chinese version of Uber.Navneet Govil, chief financial officer at <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-softbank-vision-funds-awful-year-former-employees-rival-vcs-2022-12">SoftBank's Vision Funds</a>, told Business Insider that "macro tailwinds" such as US interest rate cuts and stimulus measures in China helped its public portfolio.Vision Fund 2, which made a $500 million investment in OpenAI last month, made a $900 million investment gain in the quarter due to growth in privately held portfolio companies such as Revolut.The UK-based fintech giant, which has won banking licenses in the UK and Mexico in recent months, is now valued at $45 billion. SoftBank invested in Revolt in 2021, when it was worth $33 billion.<h2 id="18d37cf2-1aaf-4020-8453-aa9f8c4b8cca">Tailwinds for IPO activity </h2>Listings in India of companies like Ola Electric have also provided a boost for SoftBank.Govil said SoftBank saw opportunities to realize future gains from IPOs after a period of stagnancy, adding that "rate cuts in the US and elsewhere are constructive developments because they effectively lower the cost of capital and provide a good tailwind for IPO activity."He continued: "We have a late-stage portfolio that's now valued at about $34 billion and some really high-quality companies which are leaders in their respected industries, from ByteDance to PayPay to Fanatics. They will all list when the time is right."Despite the investment gain, Vision Fund 2 has lost an overall total of $21 billion since its inception. The fund has been forced to grapple with a tougher interest rate environment in recent years and a slow <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/recent-upcoming-ipo-processes-stock-market-impact-outlook-reddit-astera-2024-4">IPO market.</a>The results come as SoftBank gears up for a huge investment spree in AI to realize Son's ambitious vision. Last month at SoftBank World — its annual customer event — the founder and CEO said he <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://group.softbank/en/event/earnings_2024q2?utm_source=pressmail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=press1112#webcast02">hoped to achieve "artificial superintelligence"</a> within a decade.The 67-year-old Son, who made his original fortune with a timely bet on Alibaba, is hoping to create outsize returns in the generative AI era. He has already bet on buzzy companies such as Perplexity and chip firms trying to rival Nvidia, such as Graphcore and Arm.

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Another IPO DreamFolks is all set to open for subscription this week. Yet, experts are not convinced that another IPO season is on the horizon. “It’s too early to say that the season of IPOs has started. A lot of companies in the pipeline will be watching for two things – the response that the next few IPOs get and also the market momentum. If the markets remain volatile, companies will allow their approvals to lapse,” Pranav <keyword id="3517398" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="haldea" source="Orion">Haldea</keyword>, managing director of Prime Database told Business Insider India. While a few companies like PharmEasy, Inox Green Energy and <keyword id="12727880" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="nandan-terry" source="Orion">Nandan Terry</keyword> withdrew their draft papers, scrapping IPO plans, at least four more companies’ approvals will lapse by the end of August. The approvals for another 15 will lapse by the end of the year. “IPOs are a once-in-a-lifetime event for companies and they would want to do it at the perfect time. If the market is not giving them the valuation that they expect, they will not go ahead,” said Haldea. Only <keyword id="4093871" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="utkarsh-small-finance-bank" source="Orion">Utkarsh Small Finance Bank</keyword> has re-filed its IPO papers, even as many more companies that planned to go for an IPO in the last financial year let it lapse. Over 32 IPOs that received a go ahead in 2021-22 have been put on hold, while 31 more received an approval in 2022-23. Of these 31 from the current financial year, only Syrma and DreamWorks have gone ahead and opened their issues to the public. A lot of companies file DRHPs assuming issues will sail through but a number of factors like valuations and demand for fresh issuances among domestic and foreign investors play a key role. “There are 10-12 conditions that they have in mind during the filing and many of these conditions may change,” said Arun <keyword id="6358183" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="kejriwal" source="Orion">Kejriwal</keyword>, founder of Kejriwal Research &amp; Investment Services. A lot of IPOs from last year that are still in the pipeline, had issue sizes between ₹400-800 crore. However there are a few like Emcure <keyword id="6363818" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="pharma" source="Orion">Pharma</keyword> which had plans to raise over ₹4,500 crore as well. The decision to go ahead with an IPO will not depend on the size of the issue, but on pricing, says Kejriwal. “When the momentum is good, subscriptions and listings are good, it’s possible to slip in a bad issue but not when the market is still picking up. After <keyword id="30067" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="rbi" source="Orion">RBI</keyword> capped the amount that HNIs (high networth individuals) can borrow to invest in IPOs to ₹1 crore, they will have to invest their own funds and that will make a huge difference to subscriptions,” says Kejriwal. 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