Telefonica

Total investments

32

Average round size

72M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

0.32

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

6

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSCyber SecurityCloud InfrastructureTelecommunications

Summary

Telefonica appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1924. The company was established in Europe in Spain. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Madrid.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Telefonica, startups are often financed by Wayra, Telefonica Innovation Ventures - Overview, Pitch@Palace. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wayra, Telefonica Innovation Ventures - Overview, SunBridge Global Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wayra, Total Ventures, TempoCap.

This organization was formed by Glyn Povah, Luis Angel Galindo. We also calculated 27 valuable employees in our database.

Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Box, Third Space Learning, SATLANTIS. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Web Hosting, E-Commerce. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

When the investment is from Telefonica the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Telefonica works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2018. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
32
Lead investments
1
Exits
6
Rounds per year
0.32
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Software (10)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Artificial Intelligence (6)
  • Telecommunications (6)
  • Mobile (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (10)
  • France (1)
  • United Kingdom (10)
  • Argentina (2)
  • Spain (4)
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Peak activity year
2018
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
10
Avg. valuation at time of investment
219M
Group Appearance index
0.84
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
7.05
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Edenes 01 Jun 2012 E-Commerce, Social Media, Private Social Networking Seed 47K Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Internxt 15 Jan 2024 Internet, Information Technology, Cloud Infrastructure, Blockchain, Cloud Security, Data Storage, Cloud Storage Seed 3M Valencian Community, Valencia, Spain
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