{"id":15633,"date":"2022-01-24T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/?p=15633"},"modified":"2022-01-24T20:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T20:27:30","slug":"qraft-technologies-an-ai-focused-fintech-secures-usd146m-investment-from-softbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/2022\/01\/24\/qraft-technologies-an-ai-focused-fintech-secures-usd146m-investment-from-softbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Qraft Technologies, an AI-focused fintech secures $146m investment from SoftBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul-based AI solutions fintech, <a href=\"https:\/\/qraftaietf.com\/\">Qraft Technologies<\/a> has received a $146 million investment from SoftBank Group, a multinational conglomerate corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The investment includes primary growth capital and secondary capital that will be used to fund share purchases from investors. It forms part of a strategic partnership designed to advance the use of AI in the asset management industry, with a particular focus on AI-enabled public portfolio management systems for SoftBank.<\/p>\n<p>Qraft CEO Marcus Kim says AI technology can fundamentally change the $100 trillion asset management industry, and this investment and strategic partnership is \u201conly the start\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Qraft\u2019s US CEO Robert Nestor adds that investment management is \u201cripe for disruption\u201d thanks to rapidly evolving AI.<\/p>\n<p>Qraft and SoftBank Group will also work together to accelerate the former\u2019s expansion into the world\u2019s two largest economies, the United States and China, with plans to hire and open offices in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Qraft develops and operates deep learning-based algorithms that assign signals to portfolios which have the potential to generate returns on investment. They also offers B2B AI solutions including data processing and investment strategy discovery.<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, which focuses on investment management. The Group primarily invests in companies operating in technology, energy, and financial sectors. It also runs the Vision Fund, the world&#8217;s largest technology-focused venture capital fund, with over $100 billion in capital. Fund investors include sovereign wealth funds from countries in the Middle East. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SoftBank_Group\">(Wikipedia)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fintechfutures.com\/2022\/01\/ai-focused-fintech-qraft-technologies-secures-146m-softbank-investment\/\">Fintech Futures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul-based AI solutions fintech, Qraft Technologies has received a $146 million investment from SoftBank Group, a multinational conglomerate corporation. The investment includes primary growth capital and secondary capital that will be used to fund share purchases from investors. It forms part of a strategic partnership designed to advance the use of AI in the asset&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[62,38,298,299],"acf":false,"author_meta":{"ID":"3","user_nicename":"kweningt","user_email":"kweningt@gmail.com","user_registered":"2021-05-16 03:02:17","display_name":"Theodora Kwening","first_name":"Theodora","last_name":"Kwening"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15638,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15633\/revisions\/15638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowledgeinnovations.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}