Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments

Total investments

140

Average round size

10M

Portfolio companies

102

Rounds per year

5.19

Lead investments

10

Follow on index

0.27

Exits

47

Stages of investment
Private EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileAppsEnterprise SoftwareAdvertisingTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments is the famous VC, which was founded in 1997. The venture was found in Europe in Germany. Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments seemed to be an CVC arrangement as part of the organization. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Bonn-lengsdorf.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, startups are often financed by Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Vertex Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Genesis Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by TELUS Ventures, DTCP, BDC Venture Capital.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Internet, Information Technology. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline WebEx, Lookout, Affirmed Networks Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by Thomas Abraham. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

When the investment is from Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments performs on 3 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
140
Lead investments
10
Exits
47
Rounds per year
5.19
Follow on index
0.27
Investments by industry
  • Software (50)
  • Mobile (49)
  • Internet (32)
  • Advertising (20)
  • Wireless (20)
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Investments by region
  • United States (57)
  • Germany (50)
  • Canada (9)
  • United Kingdom (8)
  • Israel (5)
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Peak activity year
2012
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
93M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.56
Strategy success index
0.60

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Mobile Event Guide 10 Aug 2011 Mobile, Apps Seed 590K Berlin, Berlin, Germany
MOJIO 12 Dec 2016 Internet, Software, Analytics, Mobile, Apps, Robotics, Wireless, iOS, Android Early Stage Venture 7M British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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