SoftBank Vision Fund’s Deep Nishar is discussing leaving firm

SoftBank Imaginative and prescient Fund’s sole senior managing companion, Deep Nishar, is discussing leaving the agency, in keeping with folks with data of the matter.

Nishar, who’s based mostly within the San Francisco Bay Space, joined SoftBank in 2015, in keeping with his LinkedIn
profile. Beforehand a lecturer at Stanford College, he additionally served as a senior vice chairman of merchandise and consumer expertise at LinkedIn, and earlier than that, labored at Google. Nishar additionally has a powerful technical background, co-authoring 14 patents, his
biography on SoftBank’s web site reveals. He has held discussions concerning his potential departure, although nothing has been finalized, mentioned one of many folks, who requested to not be recognized discussing non-public talks.

Nishar has been concerned in additional than three dozen of SoftBank’s bets, together with 10X Genomics Inc., Guardant Well being Inc., Slack Applied sciences Inc., Pear Therapeutics Inc. and Grofers, the agency’s web site reveals. There are solely three
executives on the fund who outrank Nishar, together with Masayoshi Son, founder and chairman of SoftBank Group Corp.

A consultant for SoftBank Funding Advisers, which oversees Imaginative and prescient Fund and Imaginative and prescient Fund 2, declined to remark. Nishar didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.