Net profits for the financial year ending March at the telecoms and investment group came in at 1.41 trillion yen ($12.8 billion), up 35.8 percent.
The fund has also ploughed $1.5 billion in fresh financing into Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab.
Overall, the fund has set a goal of investing at least $100 billion in firms promising new technological innovations and has taken stakes in some of the hottest companies in the tech world, including Slack, WeWork and Nvidia.
It currently invests in 69 companies.
However, nearly half of the money in the fund comes from Saudi Arabia and it came under scrutiny last year in the wake of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
At the time, Son said he was "deeply saddened" by the death which he condemned as "a horrific and deeply regrettable act".
But he insisted that SoftBank would still work with the Kingdom "to help them in their continued efforts to reform and modernise their society".
In December, it raised around $23.5 billion via the IPO of its mobile unit but the shares endured a volatile start, losing 15 percent of their value on the first day of trade.
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