Virtual Mentorship: Backing the Boldest Founders - Inside the Mind of Tech's Biggest Dealmaker with Rajeev Misra, Fmr. CEO of Softbank Vision Fund
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Series Seed is hosting a virtual conversation with Rajeev Misra, Founder and CEO of One Investment Management (OneIM) and the architect behind SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund - the largest technology investment fund in history.
Over a career spanning more than three decades, Rajeev has operated at the highest levels of global finance. He began on Wall Street at Merrill Lynch, where he made Managing Director in a record five years. At Deutsche Bank, he built the global fixed income business from scratch. At UBS, he led the entire Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities division globally. Then, working directly with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, he raised more than $150 billion from investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, and Apple - and deployed it into over 350 companies including Uber, DoorDash, Slack, and Grab.
Today, Rajeev is building his next chapter with OneIM, a global alternative investment manager with approximately $10 billion AUM and offices spanning Abu Dhabi, London, New York, and Tokyo.
This session will explore what it takes to evaluate founders and ideas when deploying capital at unprecedented scale, how the Vision Fund reshaped the landscape of technology investing, lessons from backing companies like Uber and DoorDash from early stages to IPO, the role of sovereign wealth in the future of tech investing, and Rajeev's advice for the next generation of investors and founders.
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Speaker
Rajeev Misra
Founder & CEO at One Investment Management (OneIM)
Rajeev Misra is the Founder and CEO of One Investment Management (OneIM), a global alternative investment manager with approximately $8 billion in assets under management and offices in Abu Dhabi, London, New York, and Tokyo.
Mr. Misra is best known for his role as CEO of SoftBank Investment Advisers, where he worked directly with SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son to conceptualize and launch the $100 billion Vision Fund in 2017 — the largest technology investment fund in history. He raised more than $150 billion for the Vision Funds from limited partners including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, and Apple. Under his leadership, the fund backed over 350 companies globally, including Uber, DoorDash, Slack, and Grab. He also played a key role in the Sprint/T-Mobile merger.
Before SoftBank, Mr. Misra held senior leadership positions across Wall Street. At Deutsche Bank (1997–2008), he built the global fixed income business from the ground up, rising to Global Head of Credit and Commodities. At UBS (2009–2013), he served as Global Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities. He began his career at Merrill Lynch, where he became Managing Director in a record five years specializing in derivatives.
Mr. Misra holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering. He serves on the boards of MIT Sloan, Penn Engineering, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
