Qualcomm Ventures

Type

CVC

Status

Active

Location

San Diego, United States

Total investments

535

Average round size

43M

Portfolio companies

331

Rounds per year

22.29

Lead investments

80

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

103

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareWireless

Summary

Qualcomm Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The main department of described VC is located in the San Diego. The venture was found in North America in United States. Qualcomm Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

This organization was formed by Paul E. Jacobs. We also calculated 15 valuable employees in our database.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Comparing to the other companies, this Qualcomm Ventures performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The typical startup value when the investment from Qualcomm Ventures is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The high activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Qualcomm Ventures, startups are often financed by Venrock, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, NGP Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Vertex Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by New Enterprise Associates, Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital.

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. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Xiaomi, PayPal, Zoom Communications. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Health Care, Information Technology.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistTelecommunicationsAI/Big DataMobilityConsumer/Retail Show 5 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
AlbaniaArgentinaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and Herzegovina Show 54 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
535
Lead investments
80
Exits
103
Rounds per year
22.29
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Software (163)
  • Mobile (118)
  • Information Technology (90)
  • Artificial Intelligence (61)
  • Internet (54)
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Investments by region
  • United States (291)
  • India (52)
  • China (65)
  • Brazil (33)
  • Israel (30)
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Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
20
Number of Decacorns
22
Number of Minotaurs
9

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
12
Avg. valuation at time of investment
527M
Group Appearance index
0.86
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
2.17
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

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