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SoftBank-backed OfBusiness weighs $800 million IPO, may file draft papers by November

SoftBank-backed OfBusiness is weighing an initial public offering that could raise up to $800 million and may file draft papers by November, Bloomberg reported. The company is working with four banks on the potential offer, which may include up to $200 million in fresh shares with the balance sold b…

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Every published event attached to SoftBank, newest first.

August 2026
  1. Zenity raises $125 million Series C led by Norwest for AI agent security
July 2026 5 events
  1. Nvidia (NVDA) Shares Dip Amid Reports of Massive $250B OpenAI Financing Commitment
  2. Nvidia in talks on about $250 billion financing guarantees for OpenAI data center, WSJ says
  3. Introducing OpenAI Presence
  4. Markets may have just experienced their second DeepSeek shock, this time thanks to a Chinese AI lab named after a Pink Floyd album
  5. Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C
June 2026
  1. Data center investors buy up power developers in race to build
May 2026 2 events
  1. SoftBank says it will invest up to €75B to build French data centers
  2. SoftBank trims OpenAI margin loan to $6 billion after lenders push back on valuation
April 2026 8 events
  1. OpenAI growth concerns trigger selloff in AI infrastructure stocks
  2. Oracle closes $16.3 billion data centre financing, largest single-facility tech debt package ever
  3. SoftBank to build battery factory at former Sharp plant for AI data centres
  4. SoftBank and Intel's ZAM memory project wins Japanese government subsidy
  5. SoftBank seeks $10B margin loan against OpenAI stake
  6. Japanese TV Shopping Company Quadruples VC Fund to $200M After Early AI Bets Pay Off
  7. Caterpillar acquires assets of autonomous electric tractor startup Monarch Tractor
  8. Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi
March 2026 9 events
  1. OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation, Raises $3 Billion From Retail Investors
  2. SoftBank executes $40B bridge facility agreement for OpenAI follow-on investment
  3. SoftBank secures $40 billion bridge loan to fund further OpenAI investment
  4. SoftBank Warns New OpenAI Commitment Could Push Its Debt Ratio Past Self-Imposed Ceiling
  5. Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind
  6. Kandou AI raises $225 million from SoftBank, Synopsys, and Maverick Silicon for AI chip development
  7. Air Street becomes one of the largest solo VCs in Europe with $232M fund
  8. DOE and SoftBank partner to build 10-gigawatt data center with dedicated power in Ohio
  9. OpenAI restructures Stargate with new leaders, three compute tracks
February 2026
  1. SoftBank announces $30B follow-on investment in OpenAI