KPN Ventures

Summary

In 2015 was created KPN Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Rotterdam. The company was established in Europe in The Netherlands. KPN Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the KPN Ventures, startups are often financed by Volta Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Qbic Fund. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Volta Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Temasek Holdings, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Cottonwood Technology Fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Comparing to the other companies, this KPN Ventures performs on 17 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.

Besides them, we counted 2 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet of Things, Information Technology. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - The Netherlands. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Jasper, Actility, Cybersprint. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.