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Telefonica

Founders Glyn Povah Josep M. Monti Luis Angel Galindo

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Total investments 32
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$72M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 0.32
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.09
Exits 6
Key employees 27

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Telecommunications
  • Mobile
Summary

Telefonica appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1924. The company was established in Europe in Spain. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Madrid.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Telefonica, startups are often financed by Wayra, Telefonica Innovation Ventures - Overview, Pitch@Palace. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wayra, Telefonica Innovation Ventures - Overview, SunBridge Global Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wayra, Total Ventures, TempoCap.

This organization was formed by Glyn Povah, Luis Angel Galindo. We also calculated 27 valuable employees in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Box, Third Space Learning, SATLANTIS. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Web Hosting, E-Commerce. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

When the investment is from Telefonica the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Telefonica works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Internxt

Blockchain
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Cloud Storage
Data Storage
Information Technology
Internet
$3M15 Jan 2024 Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

VU Security

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Internet of Things
Mobile
Mobile Devices
Mobile Payments
Security
$12M12 Jul 2021 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Zamna

Blockchain
Identity Management
SaaS
Software
$5M26 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

HelloDone

Artificial Intelligence
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Messaging
Natural Language Processing
Public Transportation
SaaS
Same Day Delivery
Virtual Assistant
$3M22 Mar 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Valerann

Autonomous Vehicles
Intelligent Systems
Internet of Things
Transportation
$5M21 Dec 2018 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Quit Genius

Employee Benefits
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Wellness
$2M22 May 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Blueliv

Cyber Security
SaaS
Software
$4M14 Feb 2018 Catalonia

Averon

Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Ride Sharing
Security
$8M23 Oct 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

NFWare

Cloud Infrastructure
Software
Telecommunications
Virtualization
$2M23 Mar 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States
News
VU raises $12M to remove cybersecurity friction from digital experiences

– Argentina-based fraud and identity protection company VU raised $12m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by Globant and joined by Agrega Partners, NXTP Ventures, Bridge One, the IDB Lab and Telefónica.
– The company has total venture-backed investments of $20m.
– VU’s technology takes a person’s “online persona” and uses geolocation, biometrics and user behavior analysis to provide identity verification for users and enable a continuous authentication process that sees and connects the users’ online and offline personas.

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Total investments 32
Average round size 72M
Rounds per year 0.32
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.09
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.84

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Internxt

Blockchain
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Cloud Storage
Data Storage
Information Technology
Internet
$3M15 Jan 2024 Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

VU Security

Biometrics
Cyber Security
Fraud Detection
Identity Management
Internet of Things
Mobile
Mobile Devices
Mobile Payments
Security
$12M12 Jul 2021 Entre Ríos Province, Argentina

Zamna

Blockchain
Identity Management
SaaS
Software
$5M26 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

HelloDone

Artificial Intelligence
Last Mile Transportation
Logistics
Messaging
Natural Language Processing
Public Transportation
SaaS
Same Day Delivery
Virtual Assistant
$3M22 Mar 2019 London, England, United Kingdom

Valerann

Autonomous Vehicles
Intelligent Systems
Internet of Things
Transportation
$5M21 Dec 2018 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Quit Genius

Employee Benefits
Health Care
Medical
mHealth
Wellness
$2M22 May 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

Blueliv

Cyber Security
SaaS
Software
$4M14 Feb 2018 Catalonia

Averon

Cyber Security
Enterprise Software
Mobile
Ride Sharing
Security
$8M23 Oct 2017 San Francisco, California, United States

NFWare

Cloud Infrastructure
Software
Telecommunications
Virtualization
$2M23 Mar 2017 Sunnyvale, California, United States
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