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712Portfolio Exits
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7Partners & Customers
6About Qualcomm Ventures
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. 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 $100-million fund in China and a 100-million (Euro) fund in Europe. QCV makes strategic investments in wireless-industry ventures that provide both a strong potential return on investment (ROI) and complement existing Qualcomm products and services. When selecting portfolio companies, QCV seeks a balance between ROI and long-range strategic value to the company and the wireless industry.
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463 startup failure post-mortemsLatest Qualcomm Ventures News
Nov 20, 2023
Investors have an appetite for databases, it seems. Today, ScyllaDB , a startup developing database tech for high-throughput, low-latency workloads, announced that it raised $43 million in a funding round led by Eight Roads Ventures with participation from AB Private Credit Investors, AllianceBernstein, TLV partners, Magma Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures. The new cash will be put toward “accelerating” ScyllaDB’s momentum and expanding the size of its 168-person team, according to co-founder and CEO Dor Laor. “Today’s disruptors are ingesting an unprecedented amount of data and tapping it to deliver differentiating user experiences that transform markets and displace legacy leaders,” Laor told TechCrunch in an email interview. “Data is being enriched, cleaned, streamed, fed into AI and machine learning pipelines, replicated and cached from multiple sources. That’s why it’s more important than ever to have a database that’s up to the task.” ScyllaDB is what’s known as a NoSQL database, which — unlike the relational databases once dominant in the enterprise — provides mechanisms for data storage and retrieval that don’t rely on a “tabular relations” model. In a tabular model, a relationship is a connection between two tables of data. But with a NoSQL database, relationships don’t have to follow this schema — offering greater engineering flexibility and, in some cases, improved performance. NoSQL databases are commonly used for applications like ad serving, AI and machine learning, recommendation and personalization engines, fraud detection and analyzing data from internet of things devices. According to a 2022 survey by Ventana, almost a quarter (22%) of organizations are using NoSQL databases in production today, while more than one-third (34%) are planning to adopt NoSQL databases within two years or evaluating their potential use. And the NoSQL market is expected to grow to $35.7 billion by 2028, up from $7.3 billion in 2022, the IMARC Group reports . Now, ScyllaDB’s not the only NoSQL vendor out there — far from it. There’s ArangoDB, Redis Labs and Crate.io to name a few, not to mention bigger players like MongoDB, Amazon’s DynamoDB and Couchbase. But ScyllaDB claims that its tech offers architectural advantages, like the ability to perform millions of operations per second with “single-digit millisecond” latency. Running across multiple clouds, on a hybrid cloud setup or on-premises, ScyllaDB automatically tunes I/O and CPU performance with workload prioritization, which co-locate workloads under a single server cluster. Those claims and capabilities were enough to win over customers, evidently. ScyllaDB says its database is now used by more than 400 companies, including Discord, Epic Games and Palo Alto Networks and that revenue has grown 800% since the company’s founding in December 2012. “Across industries, R&D teams are increasingly realizing that ScyllaDB’s dramatically different database architecture delivers better performance and horizontal scalability for data-intensive workloads,” Laor said. “ScyllaDB is designed to help fast-growing, fast-moving teams deliver lightning-fast user experiences at extreme scale … ScyllaDB’s unique architecture takes full advantage of modern cloud resources, delivering impressive efficiency and price-performance.” To date, ScyllaDB has raised $103 million in venture capital.
Qualcomm Ventures Investments
712 Investments
Qualcomm Ventures has made 712 investments. Their latest investment was in ScyllaDB as part of their Series D on October 10, 2023.

Qualcomm Ventures Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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10/10/2023 | Series D | ScyllaDB | $43M | No | 2 | |
9/14/2023 | Series B - II | Spectro Cloud | Yes | NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, and Undisclosed Investors | 2 | |
9/12/2023 | Series C | floLIVE | $47M | No | 2 | |
8/23/2023 | Series D | |||||
7/12/2023 | Series B - II |
Date | 10/10/2023 | 9/14/2023 | 9/12/2023 | 8/23/2023 | 7/12/2023 |
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Round | Series D | Series B - II | Series C | Series D | Series B - II |
Company | ScyllaDB | Spectro Cloud | floLIVE | ||
Amount | $43M | $47M | |||
New? | No | Yes | No | ||
Co-Investors | NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, and Undisclosed Investors | ||||
Sources | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Qualcomm Ventures Portfolio Exits
155 Portfolio Exits
Qualcomm Ventures has 155 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Siklu on October 24, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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10/24/2023 | Acquired | 5 | |||
9/7/2023 | Acquired | 3 | |||
8/8/2023 | IPO | Public | 2 | ||
Date | 10/24/2023 | 9/7/2023 | 8/8/2023 | ||
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Exit | Acquired | Acquired | IPO | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | Public | ||||
Sources | 5 | 3 | 2 |
Qualcomm Ventures Fund History
7 Fund Histories
Qualcomm Ventures has 7 funds, including Qualcomm BNDES Fund.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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1/13/2020 | Qualcomm BNDES Fund | $19.31M | 2 | ||
11/28/2018 | Qualcomm AI Fund | ||||
9/27/2015 | Qualcomm India Startup Fund | ||||
7/1/2015 | Qualcomm South Korea Startup Fund | ||||
1/11/2015 | Qualcomm Life |
Closing Date | 1/13/2020 | 11/28/2018 | 9/27/2015 | 7/1/2015 | 1/11/2015 |
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Fund | Qualcomm BNDES Fund | Qualcomm AI Fund | Qualcomm India Startup Fund | Qualcomm South Korea Startup Fund | Qualcomm Life |
Fund Type | |||||
Status | |||||
Amount | $19.31M | ||||
Sources | 2 |
Qualcomm Ventures Partners & Customers
6 Partners and customers
Qualcomm Ventures has 6 strategic partners and customers. Qualcomm Ventures recently partnered with Arriver on January 1, 2022.
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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1/5/2022 | Partner | United States | 1 | ||
1/4/2022 | Partner | ||||
3/23/2021 | Partner | ||||
2/4/2021 | Partner | ||||
1/9/2017 | Partner |
Date | 1/5/2022 | 1/4/2022 | 3/23/2021 | 2/4/2021 | 1/9/2017 |
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Type | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner | Partner |
Business Partner | |||||
Country | United States | ||||
News Snippet | |||||
Sources | 1 |
Qualcomm Ventures Team
12 Team Members
Qualcomm Ventures has 12 team members, including current Senior Vice President, Quinn Li.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Quinn Li | IBM, Broadcom, and Lucent Technologies | Senior Vice President | Current |
Name | Quinn Li | ||||
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Work History | IBM, Broadcom, and Lucent Technologies | ||||
Title | Senior Vice President | ||||
Status | Current |
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