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BT

Founders William Fothergill Cooke

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Total investments 12
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 0.23
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.17
Exits 7
Key employees Soon

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Telecommunications
  • Software
  • Mobile
  • Wireless
Summary

BT appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1846. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the London.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the BT, startups are often financed by Texas Instruments, Sony, Sequoia Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are J & W Seligman, IBM, Texas Instruments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Qualcomm Ventures, DFJ, BlueRun Ventures.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Service Industry, Information Technology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Blackstar Amplification, WTS Positioning Solutions, DecisionPoint Applications. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2005. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this BT works on 46 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2000. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Safe Security

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Network Security
$33M21 Jul 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

WTS Positioning Solutions

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Services
Software
$744K16 Mar 2015 Stockholm County

Fon

Information Technology
Internet
Wireless
$7M10 Apr 2008 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Real Time Content

Advertising
Internet
Personalization
Video
01 Jun 2007 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Location Labs

Location Based Services
Mobile
Security
Wireless
$9M12 Feb 2002 California, United States

New Global Telecom

Government
Internet
Service Industry
Telecommunications
VoIP
$33M18 Jul 2000 Golden, Colorado, United States

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Total investments 12
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 0.23
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.17
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Safe Security

Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Security
Network Security
$33M21 Jul 2021 Palo Alto, California, United States

WTS Positioning Solutions

Consumer Electronics
Hardware
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Information Services
Software
$744K16 Mar 2015 Stockholm County

Fon

Information Technology
Internet
Wireless
$7M10 Apr 2008 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Real Time Content

Advertising
Internet
Personalization
Video
01 Jun 2007 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Location Labs

Location Based Services
Mobile
Security
Wireless
$9M12 Feb 2002 California, United States

New Global Telecom

Government
Internet
Service Industry
Telecommunications
VoIP
$33M18 Jul 2000 Golden, Colorado, United States
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