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T-Venture

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T-Venture is the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom, an integrated telecommunications company with roughly 180MM customers and more than $75m net revenue in 2011 – more than half of that from international operations. T-Venture was founded in 1997 to advise and look after young, innovative enterprises which show potential economical and technological synergies with the business units of Deutsche Telekom.

T-Venture has two evergreen funds: Products & Services Fund, Process & Infrastructure Fund.

The headquarters are in Bonn and are supplemented and complemented by T-Venture of America, Inc. in San Francisco, Mountain View, and Seattle.

T-Venture has roughly 720m Euro under management, of which 280m Euro was raised in July for new portfolio companies. T-Venture invests from Preferred Seed through mezzanine stages, 250k - 40 MM Euro. T-Venture contributes to, co-leads, and leads investment rounds. Over 70% of the 100+ active portfolio companies have a commercial engagement with Deutsche Telekom.

T-Venture has an exit-oriented venture capital investment strategy. Successfully nurtured and exited companies include BelAir Networks, CoreOptics, Danger, Demandware, Flarion Technologies, Jahjah, Starent Networks, Sonus Networks, Voice Objects, Mobilisafe, and Ruckus Wireless.

T-Venture intensively accompanies companies and acts as their long-term partner. The objective of the co-operation is a valorization of the company followed by a successful sale of the shareholding after five to seven years.

T-Venture’s shareholdings also include the distribution and marketing as well as research and development networks from Deutsche Telekom. Portfolio companies receive nationally and internationally pro-active support. Regional emphases lie in Europe, USA and Asia.

T-Venture is one of the most significant corporate venture capital companies worldwide, with a 15-year track record of over 170 successful investments, over 20 of which were high-flyer outperformers.

Recent Milestones

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  T-Venture invested in AutoRef.com. (4/12/13)
  Posted 4/12/13 at 5:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  T-Venture invested in StreetLight Data. (4/8/13)
  Posted 4/9/13 at 10:26pm via finsmes.com
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  T-Venture invested in ShareThis. (3/20/13)
  Posted 3/25/13 at 11:43pm via allthingsd.com
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  T-Venture invested in Innovid. (3/6/13)
  Posted 3/6/13 at 4:27pm via techcrunch.com
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  T-Venture invested in Smarkets. (2/21/13)
  Posted 2/21/13 at 7:45pm via finsmes.com
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  T-Venture invested in iversity. (1/16/13)
  Posted 1/16/13 at 9:35pm via finsmes.com
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  T-Venture invested in Kwarter. (1/14/13)
  Posted 1/14/13 at 7:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  T-Venture invested in NewAer. (12/26/12)
  Posted 2/16/13 at 9:40am via newaer.com
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  T-Venture invested in Affirmed Networks. (11/12/12)
  Posted 2/17/13 at 7:45pm via pandodaily.com
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  T-Venture invested in Netbiscuits. (10/16/12)
  Posted 10/18/12 at 3:46am via yahoo.com
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  T-Venture invested in SCVNGR. (8/2/12)
  Posted 8/2/12 at 7:07pm via masshightech.com
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  T-Venture invested in DropGifts. (7/24/12)
  Posted 7/24/12 at 3:22am via finsmes.com
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  T-Venture invested in Pie Digital. (7/2/12)
  Posted 7/2/12 at 7:48pm via finsmes.com
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  T-Venture invested in flaregames. (4/4/12)
  Posted 4/5/12 at 6:04pm via flaregames.com
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  T-Venture invested in myThings. (3/20/12)
  Posted 3/20/12 at 5:51am via venturebeat.com
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  T-Venture invested in Pinger. (2/23/12)
  Posted 2/23/12 at 8:13pm via pehub.com

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It’s raining cash, cloud offering Zimory raises €4m (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
6Wunderkinder scores further round of funding from T-Venture (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
myTaxi Hails New Funding (siliconallee.com) [edit]
T-Venture sells portfolio of investments to Cipio Partners (cipiopartners.com) [edit]
3. Like A CarWoo For Used Cars, AutoRef Raises $850K Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. StreetLight Data Raises Seven-Figure Euro Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
5. Social Startup ShareThis Raises $23 Million (allthingsd.com) [edit]
6. Innovid Raises $11M More From Sequoia And Others To Make Interactive Video Ads Truly Multiplatform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Smarkets Raises $2.3M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
8. iversity Raises Funding; Welcomes New CEO (finsmes.com) [edit]
9. Social TV Startup Kwarter Raises $4 Million To Help Broadcasters And Brands Build Second-Screen Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Exiting year for proximity (blog.newaer.com) [edit]
11. Affirmed Networks launches with $52 million in venture backing (pandodaily.com) [edit]
12. Netbiscuits Secures $27 Million Funding to Capitalise on Mobile Web Industry Leadership (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
13. LevelUp adds $9M to fuel mobile payments expansion (masshightech.com) [edit]
14. DropGifts Receives Funding from T-Venture (finsmes.com) [edit]
15. Pie Digital Raises $8M in Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
16. T-Venture invests in mobile games start-up flaregames (flaregames.com) [edit]
17. MyThings picks up $15M to improve display ads (venturebeat.com) [edit]
18. Pinger Raises $7.5M (pehub.com) [edit]
19. Online video marketer Clipkit raises funding from T-Venture, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. 9flats.com Raises Multi-Million Euro Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
21. Skorpios Technologies Raises Additional $2M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
22. Content Fleet Raises $3.5M in Second Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
23. Apprupt raises more funding for mobile in-content advertising technology (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Sequoia Leads $9.5 Million Round in Innovid (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. CipherCloud Raises Venture Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
26. Mobile Event Guide Homepage (mobileeventguide.de) [edit]
27. VeliQ Receives Investment from T-Venture (finsmes.com) [edit]
28. MIXAROO Receives $3,000,000 Series A Funding Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
29. 6Wunderkinder Raises Funding from T-Venture (finsmes.com) [edit]
30. Cuculus Closes Financing Round (cnbc.com) [edit]
31. Cooliris Gets $9.6 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Others, Releases New Version Of LiveShare Group Photo Sharing App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. The Future Web is Mobile - T-Venture and Creathor Venture invest in Mobile Cloud Software Platform Netbiscuits (netbiscuits.com) [edit]
33. NoSQL: GraphDB maker Sones raises millions to expand cloud computing business (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. myThings scores $6 million in funding for personalised retargeting technology (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. ASSIA Secures $20.8 Million in New Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
36. Innovid Raises $4.1 Million For Interactive Pre-Roll Advertising Technology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. IGA Worldwide Closes Financing Round (nyconvergence.com) [edit]
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39. T-Venture and Neuhaus Partners Invest in apprupt (apprupt.com) [edit]
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41. ASSIA takes $10M to manage, speed DSL service (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
42. Click here to find out more! ASSIA takes $10M to manage, speed DSL service (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
43. Ruckus nabs $10.7M for Wi-Fi for internet TV (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
44. Ethernet co Actelis raises $10m (archive.globes.co.il) [edit]
45. Neuhaus Partners And T-Venture invest in playnik.com (t-venture.com) [edit]
46. E-Commerce Provider DemandWare Raises $15 Million In Fourth Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
47. TechCrunch (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. WebEx Rival Netviewer Raises $9M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
49. Percello Raises $12 Million to Fund Accelerated Growth (reuters.com) [edit]
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51. Flights Searcher Swoodoo Gets Funds, Tie-Ups From Deutsche Telekom (paidcontent.co.uk) [edit]
52. sevenload secures New Round of Financing (corporate.sevenload.com) [edit]
53. pr.com [edit]
54. CoreOptics Lands $25M (lightreading.com) [edit]
55. T-Online Venture Fund invests in Guangzhou 1bib software development (t-venture.com) [edit]
56. Ruckus Wireless raises $7.5M more for IPTV router (venturebeat.com) [edit]
57. Ruckus Wireless raises $7.5M more for IPTV router (venturebeat.com) [edit]
58. T-Online Venture Fund Invests in Axentra. (axentra.com) [edit]
59. LiteScape Technologies Receives $14 Million in Series B Funding (findarticles.com) [edit]
60. YouTube’s Head of Monetization Quits, Joins Cooliris (gigaom.com) [edit]
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62. t-venture.de [edit]
63. EDGAR [edit]
64. T-Online Venture Fund invests in ClickandBuy (clickandbuy.com) [edit]
65. Investors Put $16M in Ruckus (internetnews.com) [edit]
66. Investors Put $16M in Ruckus (internetnews.com) [edit]
67. Ruckus Wireless has raised $16M for TV WiFi (venturebeat.com) [edit]
68. BelAir Networks Announces $21.4 Million in Series D Funding (belairnetworks.com) [edit]
69. VoiceObjects Closes $10.8M Financing; Adds Veteran Executives to Management Team (voiceobjects.com) [edit]
70. Flash Networks Raises $15M in Private Round led by Harbourvest Partners (flashnetworks.com) [edit]
71. apertio.com [edit]
72. paidcontent.org [edit]
73. Comcast Interactive Capital Invests in BelAir Networks (belairnetworks.com) [edit]
74. VoiceObjects Establishes Worldwide Headquarters in Silicon Valley - Secures Additional $11.5 Million Venture Financing to Fund North American Campaign, Adds SVP Sales, North America. (voiceobjects.com) [edit]
75. EDGAR [edit]
76. T-Mobile Venture Fund Makes Strategic Investment in BelAir Networks. (findarticles.com) [edit]
77. Danger, Inc. Announces $36 Million in Series B Financing (danger.com) [edit]