Ericsson

Summary

In 1876 was created Ericsson, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Stockholm. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Ericsson, startups are often financed by Ignition Partners, WestSummit Capital, TiE Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sapphire Ventures, WestSummit Capital, Threshold. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Sapphire Ventures, Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden).

The fund was created by Lars Magnus Ericsson. The overall number of key employees were 69.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Ericsson the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This Ericsson works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NetScreen Technologies, Sand 9, PubNub. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Open Source, Marketing. 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 exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.