SoftBank Investment Advisers manages the biggest technology funds the world has ever seen. After a decade of writing nine-figure checks into startups, it is now pointing that firepower at one thing: the full stack of artificial intelligence.
Inceptio Technology is a developer of full-stack autonomous driving systems for heavy-duty trucks, headquartered in Shanghai with an R&D center in Fremont/Santa Clara, California. Founded in 2018 by Julian Ma, it works with truck OEMs to mass-produce Level 3 highway-capable trucks and operates one of the largest real-world autonomous freight fleets in the world. Its proprietary XUANYUAN and T-NOA systems power more than 4,000 trucks that have logged over 400 million kilometers of commercial operation for customers including JD Logistics, Nestle, Budweiser and Deppon Express, as it charts a data-driven roadmap toward scalable Level 4 autonomy.
Anything (formerly Create / create.xyz) is a San Francisco AI platform that turns plain-English prompts into live, production-ready mobile and web apps - complete with backend, database, authentication, payments, and built-in AI integrations. Founded by Dhruv Amin and Marcus Lowe, it aims to take non-technical builders past the prototype stage all the way to a deployed, money-making product. The company raised an $11M Series A in 2025 at a $100M valuation and reported 700,000+ registered users.
May Habib is the co-founder and CEO of Writer, a full-stack enterprise generative AI platform valued at $1.9 billion. Born in rural Lebanon and raised in Canada after her family immigrated when she was eight, she studied Economics and Near Eastern Languages at Harvard before stints at Lehman Brothers and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala. She co-founded Writer in 2020 with Waseem AlShikh - making a contrarian bet to build proprietary LLMs (the Palmyra family) 18 months before ChatGPT - and has grown it into a platform serving 250+ enterprise clients including Uber, Salesforce, L'Oreal, and Intuit, raising $326M in total funding.