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Qualcomm Ventures

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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.

Milestones

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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Viddy. (2/7/12)
  Posted 2/7/12 at 7:28pm via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Videoplaza. (2/1/12)
  Posted 2/1/12 at 5:08am via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Avalanche Technology. (1/23/12)
  Posted 1/23/12 at 6:34pm via venturebeat.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in blippar. (1/3/12)
  Posted 1/3/12 at 5:02am via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in PowerCloud Systems. (12/14/11)
  Posted 12/14/11 at 5:00am via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Sotera Wireless. (12/13/11)
  Posted 12/13/11 at 9:07pm via soterawireless.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Enterproid. (10/6/11)
  Posted 10/6/11 at 7:03pm via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in AliveCor. (8/2/11)
  Posted 8/11/11 at 8:58pm via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Embee Mobile. (1/1/11)
  Posted 8/22/11 at 9:42pm via qualcommventures.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in we7. (7/26/11)
  Posted 7/26/11 at 5:40am via finsmes.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in ThinkNear. (8/13/11)
  Posted 3/11/11 at 11:31am via finsmes.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Gaikai. (7/20/11)
  Posted 7/20/11 at 6:13pm via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in ChaCha. (1/19/11)
  Posted 1/19/11 at 10:40pm via techcrunch.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in PayPal. (4/5/00)
  Posted 12/2/10 at 11:44am via paypalobjects.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Validity Sensors. (7/28/10)
  Posted 7/29/10 at 3:14pm via venturebeat.com
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  Qualcomm Ventures invested in Visage Mobile. (11/16/10)
  Posted 11/18/10 at 5:07am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. From T-Pain To $6 Million In New Funding: Viddy Attempts To Become The “Instagram Of Video” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Videoplaza secures $12 million for ad platform led by Qualcomm, Innovacom (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Semiconductor startup Avalanche closes $11.5M funding round (venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. Blippar Raises Seed Funding From Qualcomm For Mobile Augmented Reality Technology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. PARC Spin-Out PowerCloud Systems Raises $6 Million From Qualcomm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Sotera Wireless Completes $12.2 Million Series D Financing, Signs Agreement With Cerner (soterawireless.com) [edit]
7. Enterprise Mobile Computing Platform Enterproid Raises $11M From Google Ventures, Comcast And Qualcomm (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. ThinkNear Closes $1.6M Seed Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
9. AliveCor Turns Mobile Devices Into Low-Cost Heart Monitors, Raises $3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. we7 Closes New Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
11. Cloud-Based Game Streaming Service Gaikai Raises $30M From Qualcomm, NEA And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Qualcomm Invests $3 Million In Q&A Service ChaCha (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Qualcomm Ventures (qualcommventures.com) [edit]
14. Visage Mobile Nabs $3.6M To Help Companies Manage Employee Wireless Devices (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. uCirrus Raises $4 Million For Datastream Processing Software (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
16. Livescribe Secures $39 Million in Series C Financing Round (livescribe.com) [edit]
17. Biometric startup Validity Sensors locks up $12.6M to keep PCs safe (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
18. Wireless Game Player For Emerging Markets Zeebo Raises $8M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
19. Arieso raises $2.21 million in venture funding (tradingmarkets.com) [edit]
20. Visage Mobile Gets A $4.5 Million Infusion From Qualcomm And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Qualcomm acquires take in South Korea’s no.3 handset manufacturer, Pantech (telecomtiger.com) [edit]
22. Streamezzo Raises EUR4M in Investment Round and Welcomes Innovacom as New Investor (journalist-association.eu) [edit]
23. Capital Report Index [edit]
24. $9 Million Investment for MapmyIndia (asmmag.com) [edit]
25. Cap funding report [edit]
26. BlackBerry Partners Fund Announces funding for buzzd, Digby and WorldMate (fiercewireless.com) [edit]
27. InvenSense takes on $19M for phone motion sensing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
28. Obopay takes $20M for mobile payment software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
29. Triage Wireless Raises $20.3 Million in Series B Financing Round Led by Qualcomm Ventures (bio-medicine.org) [edit]
30. Digital Orchid raises $245,292 for mobile lotteries (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
31. DIGIT WIRELESS APPOINTS ROBERT BLUMENTHAL AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (digitwireless.com) [edit]
32. Validity raises $20M for fingerprint scanners (venturebeat.com) [edit]
33. Novarra raises $50M from Qualcomm, others (fiercewireless.com) [edit]
34. Indian VC firms invest in Kirusa of US (kirusa.com) [edit]
35. Discera lands timing chip partner; VC funding (eetimes.com) [edit]
36. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
37. INVENSENSE CLOSES ITS SECOND ROUND OF FUNDING of $11 Million (invensense.com) [edit]
38. Cap Funding Report [edit]
39. TechCrunch [edit]
40. Cap Funding Report [edit]
41. Digit Wireless Secures Additional Funding (about.telus.com) [edit]
42. PR Newswire (paypalobjects.com) [edit]