Brett Rochkind is joining the Silicon Valley office of SoftBank Investment Advisers, the subsidiary of Japan-listed internet and telecommunications group SoftBank that manages its Vision Funds, Silicon Valley Business Journal has reported.
The move follows the departure of Jeff Housenbold in July 2021 and Marcelo Claure earlier this month as well as the arrival of Nagraj Kashyap, former head of software producer Microsoft’s M12 corporate venturing unit.
(A case study presented at Stanford University in January tracked Kashyap’s backing of Workboard across multiple rounds and will be published in February’s issue of GCV.)
Rochkind has a long history of growth-stage technology investing, initially as a managing director for growth equity firm General Atlantic. He subsequently set up VC firm CRV’s $600m growth fund and, as managing partner of his own investment office, BRK Capital, was part of a $40m round for neobank StashFin in April 2021.
Softbank has been increasingly active in corporate venturing this year having participated in 14 $100m-plus rounds.
Photo of Brett Rochkind courtesy of LinkedIn.
