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Vodafone

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Total investments 26
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$78M
Portfolio companies 24
Rounds per year 0.65
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.08
Exits 6
Key employees 22

Areas of investment

  • Telecommunications
  • Information Technology
  • Mobile
  • Wireless
  • Enterprise Software
Summary

Vodafone appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1982. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Newbury.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight SavaJe Technologies, Cognia, Amobee. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Telecommunications. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

Besides them, we counted 21 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually. This Vodafone works on 7 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. When the investment is from Vodafone the average startup value is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 28 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Vodafone, startups are often financed by Vodafone Ventures, Oxford Capital Partners, Verizon Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, Verizon Ventures, Telefonica Innovation Ventures - Overview. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Vodafone Ventures, RRE Ventures, ff Venture Capital.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AST&Science

Information Technology
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$110M03 Mar 2020 Midland, Texas, United States

DAZL

Consumer Electronics
Internet of Things
Lifestyle
Public Safety
Wearables
$10K01 Aug 2016 Haryana

Fight The Stroke

Education
Health Care
Wellness
30 Jun 2016 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Puffer

Health Care
Medical
$35K22 Jun 2015 Utrecht

Sizz

Enterprise Software
Information Services
Mobile Devices
01 Jan 2011 Netherlands, " The Netherlands"}

Amobee

3D Technology
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Big Data
Brand Marketing
Digital Media
Mobile
Social Media Marketing
Video
$22M06 Aug 2008 California, United States

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Total investments 26
Average round size 78M
Rounds per year 0.65
Peak activity year 2015
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.08
Exits 6
Group Appearance index 0.35

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

AST&Science

Information Technology
Satellite Communication
Telecommunications
$110M03 Mar 2020 Midland, Texas, United States

DAZL

Consumer Electronics
Internet of Things
Lifestyle
Public Safety
Wearables
$10K01 Aug 2016 Haryana

Fight The Stroke

Education
Health Care
Wellness
30 Jun 2016 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Puffer

Health Care
Medical
$35K22 Jun 2015 Utrecht

Sizz

Enterprise Software
Information Services
Mobile Devices
01 Jan 2011 Netherlands, " The Netherlands"}

Amobee

3D Technology
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Big Data
Brand Marketing
Digital Media
Mobile
Social Media Marketing
Video
$22M06 Aug 2008 California, United States
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