Telia Company

Type

Corporate investor

Status

Active

Location

Stockholm, Sweden

Total investments

16

Average round size

45M

Portfolio companies

12

Rounds per year

0.09

Lead investments

5

Follow on index

0.25

Exits

5

Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareMobileSaaSCyber SecuritySecurityMarketingMusicInternet of ThingsMusic Streaming

Summary

Telia Company AB is the famous Corporate Investor, which was founded in 1853. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Stockholm.

The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The average startup value when the investment from Telia Company AB is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. Opposing the other organizations, this Telia Company AB works on 9 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The high activity for fund was in 2015.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Spotify, Springworks, eBuilder. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Mechanical Design. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Sweden.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Telia Company AB, startups are often financed by Wellington Partners, The Sixth AP Fund, Industrifonden. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Northzone, Creandum, White Star Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by JK&B Capital, Investor Growth Capital Limited, Zenith Venture Capital.

Besides them, we counted 24 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
16
Lead investments
5
Exits
5
Rounds per year
0.09
Follow on index
0.25
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Music Streaming (4)
  • Music (4)
  • Security (3)
  • Internet of Things (3)
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Investments by region
  • Sweden (9)
  • United States (5)
  • Switzerland (1)
  • United Kingdom (1)
Peak activity year
2015
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
2B
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
35.03
Strategy success index
0.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
SlashNext 28 Oct 2021 Software, Cyber Security, Security Early Stage Venture 23M United States, California
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