Qualcomm

San Diego, United States
Corporate investor
Active
Total investments

96

Average round size

44M

Portfolio companies

72

Rounds per year

2.46

Lead investments

13

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

24

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceManufacturingHardwareSemiconductorTelecommunicationsWireless

Summary

Qualcomm appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1985. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented Corporate Investor is situated in the San Diego.

This Qualcomm works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Qualcomm the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 6 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The current fund was established by Andrew Viterbi, Franklin P. Antonio, Irwin Jacobs. The overall number of key employees were 15.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Qualcomm, startups are often financed by Sequoia Capital, DFJ, Zone Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sequoia Capital, Motorola Solutions, Redpoint. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Sequoia Capital, General Electric (GE), SoftBank Investment Advisers.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SenseTime, Sharp, Link Motion. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Apps, Software.

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Analytics

Total investments
96
Lead investments
13
Exits
24
Rounds per year
2.46
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Mobile (29)
  • Software (26)
  • Wireless (22)
  • Telecommunications (17)
  • Information Technology (12)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (4)
  • United States (52)
  • China (13)
  • Finland (1)
  • Japan (2)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
7
Number of Decacorns
7
Number of Minotaurs
2

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
319M
Group Appearance index
0.79
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
0.33
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company nameDeal dateIndustryDeal stageDeal sizeLocation
Huake Tek11 Jan 2020Developer Tools, Computer, NanotechnologyLate Stage Venture15MChina, Guangdong Province, Futian District
Telcare22 Aug 2012Biotechnology, Health Care, Robotics, Medical Device, mHealth, WirelessEarly Stage Venture25MUnited States, Pennsylvania
TRIPP01 Jun 2022Gaming, Developer Platform, ComputerEarly Stage Venture11MUnited States, California, Los Angeles
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