Qualcomm Ventures

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. It has heavy investments in the telecom space but has funded a wide array of companies such as Paypal, Waze,[1] OpenSignal,[2] Practice Fusion,[3] Fon,[4] MapR,[5] Edico Genome,[6] Tapingo[7] and many others.

Qualcomm Ventures (QCV) was formed and began funding in 2000, with a $500-million fund commitment to make strategic investments in early-stage high-technology ventures. Since then, QCV has funded numerous companies in the wireless sector, and set up several exclusive regional funds to spur development in key strategic markets, including a $60-million fund in Korea, a $30-million fund in Japan, a $100-million fund in China and a 100-million fund in Europe.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, Toby. "Qualcomm Nets 10x on Waze". http://www.globalcorporateventureing.com. Retrieved 2 July 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ "OpenSignal lands $1.3m from Qualcomm, others for crowd-sourced mobile coverage maps". Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Empson, Rip. "Practice Fusion Adds Another $15M From Qualcomm To Help Fuel Growth, Acquisitions & Mobile Push". http://techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2 July 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  4. ↑ Witkowsky, Chris. "Fon closes $14 mln funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures". http://www.pehub.com. Retrieved 2 July 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  5. ↑ Graves, Brad. "Qualcomm Joins MapR Technologies’ Backers". http://www.sdbj.com. Retrieved 2 July 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  6. ↑ Philippidis, Alex (July 17, 2014). "Edico Genome Draws Greg Lucier among Investors". Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Tapingo". Qualcomm Ventures.
  8. ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/qualcomm-ventures#/entity


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