{"id":1422,"date":"2017-03-21T18:18:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T12:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2017-03-21T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T12:48:51","slug":"softbank-invests-300-million-in-shared-office-startup-wework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/softbank-invests-300-million-in-shared-office-startup-wework\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank invests $300 million in shared-office startup WeWork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp has invested $300 million in shared-office space company WeWork, the first installment of a multi-billion-dollar bet, according to a source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications and internet company, has made bold and wide-ranging bets in the technology industry, including India ride-service company Ola, San Francisco-based financial services startup SoFi and Virginia-based satellite communications startup OneWeb.<\/p>\n<p>The WeWork investment is just the first tranche of a much larger funding round that is expected to total about $3 billion, according to the person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/companies\/softbank-invests-300-million-in-shared-office-startup-wework-source-4578534\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group Corp has invested $300 million in shared-office space company WeWork, the first installment of a multi-billion-dollar bet, according to a source familiar with the matter. SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications and internet company, has made bold and wide-ranging bets in the technology industry, including India ride-service company Ola, San Francisco-based financial services startup SoFi\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/softbank-invests-300-million-in-shared-office-startup-wework\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[95,217,71],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-shared-office-space","tag-softbank","tag-wework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propstack.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}