France Telecom (now Orange S.A.)

Summary

France Telecom (now Orange S.A.) is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1988. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Issy-les-moulineaux. The company was established in Europe in France.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 7 partakers. Despite the France Telecom (now Orange S.A.), startups are often financed by Walden Venture Capital, Global Catalyst Partners, Walden International. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Walden International, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by The Carlyle Group, Global Catalyst Partners, DuPont Capital Management.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. 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 most successful fund investment fields, there are Audio, Telecommunications. The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight OpenTable, Soundhound, Actelis Networks.

The overall number of key employees were 24.

This France Telecom (now Orange S.A.) works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The high activity for fund was in 2005. The typical startup value when the investment from France Telecom (now Orange S.A.) is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2009. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.