# SoftBank secures $11.87B loan facility to support its OpenAI investment

> SoftBank has lined up a large war chest to back its bet on OpenAI. The Japanese conglomerate secured commitments of about 11.87 billion dollars across roughly 20 banks for a two-year loan facility, comfortably exceeding its initial 10 billion dollar target. The financing is earmarked to support SoftBank's investment in OpenAI, one of the biggest single positions in the current AI cycle. The detail that matters is how it is structured. Rather than spend from its own balance sheet, SoftBank is raising debt against the position, a reminder that even the largest AI backers are leaning on borrowed money to keep pace with the capital demands of frontier labs. The fact that the book was oversubscribed suggests banks remain willing to lend into the AI buildout despite growing questions about valuations. It is a corporate-finance story more than a startup raise, but it captures the sheer scale of money now flowing toward a handful of AI companies, and the increasingly leveraged machinery being built to move it.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Bloomberg / TechMeme · Published Monday, September 14, 2026_

## Wortins' read

SoftBank has lined up a large war chest to back its bet on OpenAI. The Japanese conglomerate secured commitments of about 11.87 billion dollars across roughly 20 banks for a two-year loan facility, comfortably exceeding its initial 10 billion dollar target. The financing is earmarked to support SoftBank's investment in OpenAI, one of the biggest single positions in the current AI cycle. The detail that matters is how it is structured. Rather than spend from its own balance sheet, SoftBank is raising debt against the position, a reminder that even the largest AI backers are leaning on borrowed money to keep pace with the capital demands of frontier labs. The fact that the book was oversubscribed suggests banks remain willing to lend into the AI buildout despite growing questions about valuations. It is a corporate-finance story more than a startup raise, but it captures the sheer scale of money now flowing toward a handful of AI companies, and the increasingly leveraged machinery being built to move it.

## Source

[Read the full story at Bloomberg / TechMeme](https://www.techmeme.com/260913/p18#a260913p18)

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