Miami Herald: The recipient is Eight Sleep, a high-performance sleep company that sells tech-enabled, temperature-controlled mattresses.
To make the investment, whose sum was not disclosed, SoftBank is tapping its $100 million Opportunity Fund, which is dedicated to supporting minority founders — in this case, Eight Sleep’s Alexandra Zatarain, a Latina of Mexican descent. Zatarain and her husband, Eight Sleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti, met in Miami and have visited “hundreds” of times. Zatarain also attended a University of Miami communications program for a year.
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