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Ericsson

Founders Lars Magnus Ericsson

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$29M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 0.16
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.30
Exits 5
Key employees 73
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Big Data
  • Open Source
  • Internet of Things
  • Cloud Computing
Summary

In 1876 was created Ericsson, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the Stockholm. The venture was found in Europe in Sweden.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Ericsson, startups are often financed by Ignition Partners, WestSummit Capital, TiE Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Sapphire Ventures, WestSummit Capital, Threshold. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Threshold, Sapphire Ventures, Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden).

The fund was created by Lars Magnus Ericsson. The overall number of key employees were 69.

The top activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 3 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Ericsson the average startup value is 100-500 millions dollars. This Ericsson works on 4 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight NetScreen Technologies, Sand 9, PubNub. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Open Source, Marketing. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$21M11 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$18M05 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Einride

Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Logistics
Transportation
$110M06 May 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Balena

Internet of Things
Open Source
PaaS
Software
$9M27 Jun 2016 Seattle, Washington, United States

Jolata

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Real Time
Software
$7M13 Apr 2016 San Jose, California, United States

Cask

Analytics
Big Data
Developer APIs
Open Source
Software
$20M05 Nov 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

Mirantis

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Open Source
Software
$100M24 Aug 2015 California, United States

Mirantis

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Open Source
Software
$100M20 Oct 2014 California, United States

Internet
Mobile
$3M16 Jan 2014 Massachusetts, United States
News
Everactive Raises $16M Additional Series C Funding

– Everactive from Santa Clara develops batteryless wireless IoT solutions.
– The company raised $16m in a strategic funding round.
– Backers in the round included 3M, Ericsson, and Armstrong International.

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Total investments 23
Average round size 29M
Rounds per year 0.16
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.30
Exits 5
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$21M11 Oct 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Formant

Information Services
Information Technology
Robotics
$18M05 Jan 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Einride

Autonomous Vehicles
Electric Vehicle
Logistics
Transportation
$110M06 May 2021 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Balena

Internet of Things
Open Source
PaaS
Software
$9M27 Jun 2016 Seattle, Washington, United States

Jolata

Analytics
Big Data
Computer
Real Time
Software
$7M13 Apr 2016 San Jose, California, United States

Cask

Analytics
Big Data
Developer APIs
Open Source
Software
$20M05 Nov 2015 Palo Alto, California, United States

Mirantis

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Open Source
Software
$100M24 Aug 2015 California, United States

Mirantis

Big Data
Cloud Computing
Enterprise Software
IaaS
Open Source
Software
$100M20 Oct 2014 California, United States

Internet
Mobile
$3M16 Jan 2014 Massachusetts, United States
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