Here's what SoftBank Group Corp. should do to generate more qualified meetings every month.
Lead generation
For SoftBank, the best place to start with outbound prospecting is by focusing on lookalikes of your most successful portfolio companies or your ideal investment target. Imagine the founders and executive teams you've already partnered with successfully—target similar AI, semiconductor, robotics, and deep-tech startups, especially those at seed through Series B stage. Leadsforge can help you quickly identify and build lists of founders and teams that share characteristics with your best investments.
Here is why: This approach lets you leverage real-world success to find more companies likely to be a fit—maximizing deal velocity and minimizing wasted outreach. Leadsforge’s filters can match by sector, size, funding stage, or geography, so you’re always targeting prospects that align best with your investment goals.
To find new deal opportunities and partners, go after the followers of your competitor’s company pages on LinkedIn. These are audiences already interested in similar investment theses or sectors. All you need to do is provide the competitor’s company page link and company website in Leadsforge, and it will find relevant follower details for you.
Here is why: This is a smart way to reach engaged, relevant contacts who are eager about industry updates. Just paste the competitor LinkedIn page into Leadsforge and let it build fresh prospect lists for your next campaign.
Map your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) by first identifying the teams and decision-makers you want. For SoftBank, this includes founders, CTOs, and heads of product in AI, semiconductor, robotics, and clean energy startups—especially those across Japan, the US, UK, and India. Use other attributes like funding stage, employee size, and region to refine the list and then send it to Leadsforge for precision list-building.
Here is why: The more you can narrow your audience to exactly who matters—in terms of industry, seniority, geo, and sector—the more efficient and relevant your outreach will be. Smart ICP targeting means fewer wasted messages and a higher chance of speaking to the right decision-maker.
Targeting
Segment your outreach using a combination of industry (AI, ML, deep tech, semiconductors), company size (startup, scale-up, mid-market, enterprise), and geography (Japan, US, UK, India). Within each segment, further group by role—such as founders, CTOs, or heads of corporate development.
Here is why: Segmentation ensures your messages feel highly relevant to the recipient. For example, founders at early-stage AI companies will respond to different hooks than heads of corporate development at major enterprises. Organized segmentation leads to better messaging and reply rates.
For more advanced targeting, create verticals such as AI/ML startups, semiconductor design firms, IoT/robotics manufacturers, and clean energy innovators. You can develop custom outreach for each slice—for example, referencing recent fundraising news in the AI vertical or regulatory trends in clean energy.
Here is why: Tailoring outreach by vertical instantly signals you understand their world, making your message stand out amid generic cold emails.
Leverage real-time events to trigger outreach—such as funding announcements, new executive hires (like CTOs), major product launches, or regulatory news (like M&A deals). You can set alerts and rebuild lists when these events happen.
Here is why: Triggers ensure your message hits prospects when they’re most likely to act—right after a funding round or big news. This timing helps your emails rise above the noise and positions SoftBank as a responsive, helpful partner.
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Here is why: With Salesforge, you gain visibility over every touchpoint—seeing opens, replies, and meetings booked by each team or region. This lets you optimize campaigns quickly and ensure high consistency and results across the organization.
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Here’s Why
Leadsforge is the fastest way to generate targeted lists based on your unique criteria—industry, role, funding stage, region, and more. You can build lookalike audiences, tap into competitor page followers, and get fresh, validated contact data for any segment you want, all in just a few clicks.
Here is why: This means less time spent preparing data and more time engaging with the right people. It’s essential for fast-moving investment teams needing accurate, high-quality leads.
For SoftBank’s needs, we recommend setting up your outbound mailboxes with Primeforge to manage your Google and Microsoft mail accounts, combined with Infraforge for enterprise-grade deliverability and a dedicated sending reputation. This combo gives you the control required to protect your corporate sender reputation while scaling to global volumes and maintaining compliance.
Here is why: Using Primeforge ensures all outreach goes out from authentic, trusted mailboxes, while Infraforge’s dedicated IP setup maximizes your ability to reach the inbox and lets you control each team or geo’s outbound volume—crucial at enterprise scale.
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