Telefonica Ventures

Corporate VC · Madrid (Spain)

Corporate VC

Seed

Series A

Consumer

Services

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Telefónica S.A. is an accelerator, incubator and venture capital arm of Telefónica Digital Holdings SL specializing in early stage, growth capital, seed and startups investments. The firm invests directly as well as in participative loans. It typically invests in following sectors: technology, governance, cybersecurity, supply chain security, business continuity and crisis management, security services, artificial intelligence and new technologies, SMEs, global enterprise services, B2B market, B2C and B2B fields, business services, business principals and policies, sustainability strategy, value chain, compliance, consumer, entertainment and services, networks and system technologies, data protection, and new information and communication technologies, 4G and 5G mobile technologies. The firm primarily invests in Latin America and Europe. Within Europe, it focuses on Spain and within Latin America it focuses on Mexico, Central America, and South America including Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. The firm typically invests between $0.036 million and $5 million. It does not invest in companies that have existed for more than 24 months (since the start of commercial activity) nor received over €100, 000 ($0.12 million) in financing before the competition. It invests for a stake between 5 percent and 10 percent. Telefónica S.A. was founded in 2011 and is based in Madrid, Spain with additional offices across South and Central America and Europe., Telefónica Tech Ventures is a venture capital arm of Telefónica, S.A. specializing in startups, growth stages and early stage investments. The firm invests in cybersecurity field. The firm invests in areas such as threat intelligence, cloud security, phising, network security, data protection and the application of automations, iot security, home security, cyber for smes, identity management and artificial intelligence in defence of any organisation. The focus of the investments will be on Spain, Brazil, Germany and the United Kingdom and other significant technological markets such as the United States and Israel. The firm makes an investment ticket of 0.1€ million (1.17$ million) up to €6 million ($7.10 million). The firm takes minority stakes. Telefónica Tech Ventures is based in Madrid, Spain.

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