{"id":973021,"date":"2025-11-11T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T02:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973021"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:12:33","slug":"not-rushing-our-firms-to-public-markets-no-pressure-to-exit-softbanks-sumer-juneja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/11\/not-rushing-our-firms-to-public-markets-no-pressure-to-exit-softbanks-sumer-juneja\/","title":{"rendered":"Not rushing our firms to public markets; no pressure to exit: SoftBank&#8217;s Sumer Juneja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank in India has deployed around $10 billion across Vision Fund 1 and 2, with realised and still-liquid positions worth at least that amount, said Sumer Juneja, managing partner and head of EMEA &amp; India at SoftBank Investment Advisers.As an increasing number of portfolio firms tap domestic public markets, Juneja told ET in an interview that SoftBank\u2019s 13% stake in Lenskart&#8211;which listed on Monday and closed at a market cap of Rs 69,967 crore&#8211;has a paper value of about $1 billion, emerging as one of its biggest positions and potentially the largest return on capital for the investor in India if the price holds up for the omnichannel eyewear retailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank in India has deployed around $10 billion across Vision Fund 1 and 2, with realised and still-liquid positions worth at least that amount, said Sumer Juneja, managing partner and head of EMEA &amp; India at SoftBank Investment Advisers.As an increasing number of portfolio firms tap domestic public markets, Juneja told ET in an interview that SoftBank\u2019s 13% stake in Lenskart&#8211;which listed on Monday and closed at a market cap of Rs 69,967 crore&#8211;has a paper value of about $1 billion, emerging as one of its biggest positions and potentially the largest return on capital for the investor in India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}