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Nokia

Founders Frederic Idestam Leo Mechelin

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Total investments 41
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 35
Rounds per year 0.26
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.15
Exits 15
Key employees 31

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Semiconductor
  • Mobile
  • Wireless
  • Telecommunications
Summary

Nokia appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1865. The company was established in Europe in Finland. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the Helsinki.

The important activity for fund was in 2004. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 4 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Nokia works on 12 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2006. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Nokia, startups are often financed by NGP Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, ONSET Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ONSET Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Nexit Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tallwood Venture Capital, Noventi Ventures, Nexit Ventures.

The current fund was established by Frederic Idestam, Ralph Eric Kunz. The overall number of key employees were 30.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Fitness, Wireless. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Redback Networks, Team8, Zvents The fund has no specific favorite 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. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HMD

Consumer Electronics
Customer Service
Manufacturing
Mobile Devices
Product Design
$230M11 Aug 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Team8

Computer
Cyber Security
Financial Services
FinTech
Network Security
Venture Capital
$23M23 Feb 2016 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Team8

Computer
Cyber Security
Financial Services
FinTech
Network Security
Venture Capital
$15M24 Jun 2014 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Skorpios Technologies

Communication Hardware
Semiconductor
Wellness
$19M15 Sep 2011 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

ClariPhy Communications

Optical Communication
Semiconductor
Telecommunications
$14M20 Jun 2011 Irvine, California, United States

Zvents

Concerts
Events
Fitness
Media and Entertainment
Nightlife
Restaurants
Social Media
Ticketing
$24M30 Sep 2008 India, Goa, India

Imergy Power Systems

Chemical
Energy
Energy Management
Energy Storage
$15M07 Jan 2008 Fremont, California, United States

Kyte

iOS
Mobile
Video
$15M01 Dec 2007 Zurich, Switzerland

Skyhook

Aerospace
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Location Based Services
Mobile
Professional Services
Software
$6M20 Dec 2005 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
News
Cybersecurity ratings platform SecurityScorecard raises $180M

– SecurityScorecard has raised $180m in a series E round of funding.
– The company enables companies like Nokia, AXA, Liberty Mutual, and Cadence Bank to evaluate and continuously monitor their security, including weaknesses in third-party vendors that they use.
– Using seven years of historical data, SecurityScorecard assigns ratings from A to F to help security personnel address their most important vulnerabilities and evaluate external partnerships, providing an easy way to “understand their cyber posture”.
– The score is really just the tip of the iceberg though, and SecurityScorecard offers additional tools and services based on this metric, including enterprise risk management that helps establish vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure and analytics that enable businesses to “operate with a situational awareness of the cyber risk landscape and make business decisions with more confidence”.

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Total investments 41
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 0.26
Peak activity year 2004
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.15
Exits 15
Group Appearance index 0.68

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

HMD

Consumer Electronics
Customer Service
Manufacturing
Mobile Devices
Product Design
$230M11 Aug 2020 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Team8

Computer
Cyber Security
Financial Services
FinTech
Network Security
Venture Capital
$23M23 Feb 2016 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Team8

Computer
Cyber Security
Financial Services
FinTech
Network Security
Venture Capital
$15M24 Jun 2014 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Skorpios Technologies

Communication Hardware
Semiconductor
Wellness
$19M15 Sep 2011 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

ClariPhy Communications

Optical Communication
Semiconductor
Telecommunications
$14M20 Jun 2011 Irvine, California, United States

Zvents

Concerts
Events
Fitness
Media and Entertainment
Nightlife
Restaurants
Social Media
Ticketing
$24M30 Sep 2008 India, Goa, India

Imergy Power Systems

Chemical
Energy
Energy Management
Energy Storage
$15M07 Jan 2008 Fremont, California, United States

Kyte

iOS
Mobile
Video
$15M01 Dec 2007 Zurich, Switzerland

Skyhook

Aerospace
Consumer Electronics
Information Technology
Location Based Services
Mobile
Professional Services
Software
$6M20 Dec 2005 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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