Deutsche Telekom

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Bonn, Germany

Total investments

33

Average round size

30M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

1.14

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.12

Exits

7

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileEnterprise SoftwareNetwork SecurityComputerTelecommunicationsInternet of Things

Summary

In 1995 was created Deutsche Telekom, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in Germany. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Bonn.

Besides them, we counted 13 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this Deutsche Telekom performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Speaking about the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The average startup value when the investment from Deutsche Telekom is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 1 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Security, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DocuSign, WebEx, Jawbone.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Deutsche Telekom, startups are often financed by Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, Khosla Ventures, Accel. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, Cisco, NovaVest. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vodafone Ventures, RRE Ventures, Marker.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
33
Lead investments
7
Exits
7
Rounds per year
1.14
Follow on index
0.12
Investments by industry
  • Telecommunications (9)
  • Mobile (8)
  • Information Technology (7)
  • Software (6)
  • Internet (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (19)
  • Austria (1)
  • Germany (9)
  • Israel (3)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
3
Number of Decacorns
3
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
255M
Group Appearance index
0.94
Avg. company exit year
13
Avg. multiplicator
0.01
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
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