Swisscom

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Bern, Switzerland

Total investments

25

Average round size

6M

Portfolio companies

19

Rounds per year

1.00

Lead investments

2

Follow on index

0.24

Exits

3

Areas of investment
SoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningBankingBitcoinCryptocurrencyBlockchainEthereum

Summary

Swisscom is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1998. The venture was found in Europe in Switzerland. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Worblaufen.

Opposing the other organizations, this Swisscom works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 2 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2011.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Swisscom, startups are often financed by investiere | Verve Capital Partners, Lakestar, Siraj Khaliq. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are investiere | Verve Capital Partners, Zu00fcrcher Kantonalbank ZKB, Swisscom Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by DFJ, investiere | Verve Capital Partners, Zu00fcrcher Kantonalbank ZKB.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Switzerland. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Beekeeper, Nanolive, Advanon. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. 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 Biotechnology, Small and Medium Businesses.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
25
Lead investments
2
Exits
3
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.24
Investments by industry
  • Software (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Machine Learning (5)
  • Banking (4)
  • Information Technology (4)
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Investments by region
  • Switzerland (16)
  • United States (4)
  • France (3)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Canada (1)
Peak activity year
2020
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
399M
Group Appearance index
0.68
Avg. company exit year
4
Avg. multiplicator
2.98
Strategy success index
0.10

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Beekeeper 10 Jul 2020 Mobile, Messaging, SaaS, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Real Time, Unified Communications Early Stage Venture 10M Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich
Nanolive 04 Oct 2016 Biotechnology, 3D Technology Seed 545K Switzerland, Vaud
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