Softbank Vision is to invest a trillion dollars in at least a thousand Unicorns over the next ten years

Softbanks’s CEO Masayoshi Son is creating a mechanism to increase their funding ability from 10 trillion yen to 20 trillion yen to 100 trillion yen. The funds will probably have invested in at least 1,000 [unicorn] companies within 10 years.

According to Nikkei, all the Vision Funds are expected to chiefly target unicorns — aka tech startups that haven’t gone public yet but have an estimated valuation above $1BN.

The average scale of investment by the funds is likely to reach about $888 million, it said.

Softbank seems to be looking to tap into about 5% of the sovereign wealth funds.

Assets under management of SWFs increased for the fifth year running in 2013 to a record $5.78 trillion. There was an additional $7.2 trillion held in other sovereign investment vehicles, such as pension reserve funds, development funds and state-owned corporations’ funds and $8.1 trillion in other official foreign exchange reserves. Taken together, governments of SWFs, largely those in emerging economies, have access to a pool of funds totaling $20 trillion.