Telstra Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Location

Sydney, Australia

Total investments

130

Average round size

56M

Portfolio companies

93

Rounds per year

10.00

Lead investments

27

Follow on index

0.28

Exits

22

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareNetwork SecuritySecurity

Summary

In 2011 was created Telstra Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Australia. Telstra Ventures appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Sydney.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is no 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 Machine Learning, Cloud Computing. The fund has no exact preference 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Snap, CrowdStrike, UBTech Robotics.

The top activity for fund was in 2018. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Telstra Ventures works on 12 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. When the investment is from Telstra Ventures the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Telstra Ventures, startups are often financed by GV, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are GV, General Catalyst, Sierra Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Salesforce Ventures, GGV Capital, New Enterprise Associates.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistCloud/InfrastructureCybersecurityBlockchain/Crypto/Web3Consumer/Retail
Stage focus
Series BSeries CSeries D
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 350000000
Fund raised date
2022-09-14

Analytics

Total investments
130
Lead investments
27
Exits
22
Rounds per year
10.00
Follow on index
0.28
Investments by industry
  • Software (68)
  • Information Technology (34)
  • SaaS (25)
  • Mobile (21)
  • Enterprise Software (20)
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Investments by region
  • United States (92)
  • China (10)
  • India (2)
  • Canada (6)
  • Singapore (4)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
11
Number of Decacorns
13
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1B
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
6.26
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Coalesce Automation 04 Apr 2024 Software, Analytics, Data Integration, Data Center Automation Early Stage Venture 50M United States, California, San Francisco
Strata Identity 25 Jan 2023 Software, Information Technology, Cloud Data Services, Identity Management Early Stage Venture 26M United States, Boulder, Colorado

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