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KPN Ventures

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Total investments 36
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$14M
Portfolio companies 27
Rounds per year 4.00
Lead investments 6
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.25
Exits 2
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Internet of Things
  • Information Technology
  • Security
  • SaaS
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BOX ID Systems

Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$4M01 Feb 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

CloudTalk

Call Center
Collaboration
CRM
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$28M17 Jan 2024 Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Airalo

Mobile Apps
Telecommunications
Travel
$60M31 Jul 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Perlego

EBooks
EdTech
Education
Publishing
Subscription Service
24 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

RangeForce

Cyber Security
Information Technology
SaaS
Security
Software
Training
$20M06 Mar 2023 Virginia, United States

Qollabi

Business Information Systems
Enterprise Software
Hardware
Insurance
Retail
SaaS
Sales
Software
$2M30 Jun 2022 -

Minut

Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
$3M29 Mar 2022 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

CensorNet

Cloud Security
Enterprise Software
Productivity Tools
Security
Software
02 Feb 2022 Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom

Lendis

Enterprise Software
Office Administration
Rental
$35M21 Jan 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Total investments 36
Average round size 14M
Rounds per year 4.00
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.25
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.92

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

BOX ID Systems

Information Technology
Internet
SaaS
Software
$4M01 Feb 2024 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

CloudTalk

Call Center
Collaboration
CRM
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Telecommunications
VoIP
$28M17 Jan 2024 Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Airalo

Mobile Apps
Telecommunications
Travel
$60M31 Jul 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Perlego

EBooks
EdTech
Education
Publishing
Subscription Service
24 Apr 2023 London, England, United Kingdom

RangeForce

Cyber Security
Information Technology
SaaS
Security
Software
Training
$20M06 Mar 2023 Virginia, United States

Qollabi

Business Information Systems
Enterprise Software
Hardware
Insurance
Retail
SaaS
Sales
Software
$2M30 Jun 2022 -

Minut

Internet of Things
Security
Smart Home
$3M29 Mar 2022 Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

CensorNet

Cloud Security
Enterprise Software
Productivity Tools
Security
Software
02 Feb 2022 Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom

Lendis

Enterprise Software
Office Administration
Rental
$35M21 Jan 2022 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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