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swisscom.com/ventures

Investments

165

Portfolio Exits

33

Funds

1

Partners & Customers

6

About Swisscom Ventures

Swisscom Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Swisscom and seeks to acquire minority stakes in companies that operate in markets for information, communication and entertainment technologies. Swisscom Ventures primarily invests in areas that are strategic for Swisscom, in terms of revenue increase (e.g. new broadband services), quality improvements and cost reductions (e.g. network optimisation tools). Swisscom Ventures aims to provide companies with the technical know-how and strategic experience of an established telecommunications provider Swisscom Ventures' parent company is Switzerland's telecoms provider, with over 5 million mobile customers and around 5.3 million fixed-lines (including more than 1.6 million broadband connections). Alongside the traditional product and service offerings in the area of telecommunications, Swisscom has a strategic focus on the distribution of video content, currently with, for example, Bluewin TV and Bluewin TV mobile.

Headquarters Location

Alte Tiefenaustrasse 6

Bern, 3050,

Switzerland

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Latest Swisscom Ventures News

Swisscom StartUp Challenge honours three deeptech start-ups

Sep 21, 2023

Award 21.09.2023 With its StartUp Challenge 2023, Swisscom was looking for deeptech start-ups. The winners have been selected today. Irmos technology, Swistor and Synthara were successful. They will participate in a business acceleration program in Silicon Valley. 240 companies applied for the 11th Swisscom StartUp Challenge. Ten of them were selected for the final and pitched today in front of a top-class jury in Zurich. The winners are: Irmos Technologies aims to maximize the safe operational life of existing bridges based on data. While every second bridge in Europe has exceeded its expiration date, maintenance today relies on visual inspections. As a result, maintenance is often insufficient or expensive. Irmos’ solution empowers engineers to monitor the structural health of bridges, reducing maintenance costs and environmental impact and at the same time improving safety. The solution translates monitoring data to key structural metrics, enable to continuously monitor the structural integrity and allows data-driven projections for predictive maintenance planning. Swistor is a Cleantech start-up developing innovative energy storage devices for consumer portable electronics, autonomous IoT sensor nodes, space applications and at a later stage for the grid. The EPFL spin-off technology enables ultra-fast charging supercapacitators based on nano technology that combine high energy storage capabilities with high-power delivery capabilities, to enable the next generation of energy storage devices and provide a long lasting and environmentally friendly solution that aims to make energy storage sustainable. A typical application would be an IOT-sensor charged with a solar cell eliminating the need to change the battery. Synthara is a semiconductor company working on a new breed of edge-AI chips. Synthara’s approach is called in-memory computing, processing power is embedded within the memory itself. From an interface standpoint, Synthara’s offering appears like typical memory; it is thus called ComputeRAM. The Synthara team integrated this ComputeRAM in a compact 2×2 mm chip in a novel type of architecture. They also produced a software development kit that allows users to optimize the entire system for applications such as AI or signal processing without requiring any low-level understanding of the hardware. This results in a 50-fold increase in computing power and efficiency. Synthara’s unique selling point lies in its ability to deliver in-memory computing in a non-disruptive manner. Chip manufacturers utilizing Synthara’s semiconductor intellectual property (semi-IP) can seamlessly integrate it without altering their existing infrastructure. The usual division of labour in the industry can remain unchanged too. The winners will participate in a business acceleration program in Silicon Valley which will be organized for each team individually and will get the chance to explore collaboration opportunities with Swisscom. In addition, the program will put winners in contact with investors including Swisscom Ventures.

Swisscom Ventures Investments

165 Investments

Swisscom Ventures has made 165 investments. Their latest investment was in viboo as part of their Seed VC on September 9, 2023.

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Swisscom Ventures Investments Activity

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Date

Round

Company

Amount

New?

Co-Investors

Sources

9/14/2023

Seed VC

viboo

$1.68M

Yes

1

5/16/2023

Series B

ANYbotics

$50M

No

12

5/9/2023

Series D

Ecorobotix

$48.3M

No

5

2/16/2023

Seed VC

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$99M

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10

1/19/2023

Series A

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$99M

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10

Date

9/14/2023

5/16/2023

5/9/2023

2/16/2023

1/19/2023

Round

Seed VC

Series B

Series D

Seed VC

Series A

Company

viboo

ANYbotics

Ecorobotix

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Amount

$1.68M

$50M

$48.3M

$99M

$99M

New?

Yes

No

No

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Co-Investors

Sources

1

12

5

10

10

Swisscom Ventures Portfolio Exits

33 Portfolio Exits

Swisscom Ventures has 33 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Metaco on May 17, 2023.

Date

Exit

Companies

Valuation
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Acquirer

Sources

5/17/2023

Acquired

$99M

19

1/5/2023

Acq - Fin

$99M

1

11/22/2022

Acquired

$99M

10

7/19/2022

Acquired

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$99M

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10

5/2/2022

Acquired

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$99M

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10

Date

5/17/2023

1/5/2023

11/22/2022

7/19/2022

5/2/2022

Exit

Acquired

Acq - Fin

Acquired

Acquired

Acquired

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Acquirer

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Sources

19

1

10

10

10

Swisscom Ventures Acquisitions

4 Acquisitions

Swisscom Ventures acquired 4 companies. Their latest acquisition was webcall on June 30, 2008.

Date

Investment Stage

Companies

Valuation
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Total Funding

Note

Sources

6/30/2008

Series A

$99M

Acquired

1

8/10/2006

Convertible Note

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$99M

$99M

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10

3/7/2003

Convertible Note

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$99M

$99M

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10

2/28/2003

Series A

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$99M

$99M

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10

Date

6/30/2008

8/10/2006

3/7/2003

2/28/2003

Investment Stage

Series A

Convertible Note

Convertible Note

Series A

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Total Funding

$99M

$99M

$99M

Note

Acquired

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Sources

1

10

10

10

Swisscom Ventures Fund History

1 Fund History

Swisscom Ventures has 1 fund, including Digital Transformation Fund.

Closing Date

Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

Sources

7/13/2018

Digital Transformation Fund

$199M

1

Closing Date

7/13/2018

Fund

Digital Transformation Fund

Fund Type

Status

Amount

$199M

Sources

1

Swisscom Ventures Partners & Customers

6 Partners and customers

Swisscom Ventures has 6 strategic partners and customers. Swisscom Ventures recently partnered with Nexxiot on October 10, 2020.

Date

Type

Business Partner

Country

News Snippet

Sources

10/1/2020

Partner

Switzerland

Swisscom Features Nexxiot in Their IoT Magazine - Nexxiot

To read more about Nexxiot and Swisscom 's partnership and to learn more about how Nexxiot is using Big Data to make supply chains more transparent , efficient and sustainable , download the PDF of the original article in Swisscom 's IoT : .

1

9/24/2020

Partner

United States, and Sweden

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10

7/14/2016

Partner

United States

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10

2/22/2016

Vendor

Finland

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10

1/31/2013

Partner

United States

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10

Date

10/1/2020

9/24/2020

7/14/2016

2/22/2016

1/31/2013

Type

Partner

Partner

Partner

Vendor

Partner

Business Partner

Country

Switzerland

United States, and Sweden

United States

Finland

United States

News Snippet

Swisscom Features Nexxiot in Their IoT Magazine - Nexxiot

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Sources

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10

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10

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Swisscom Ventures Team

1 Team Member

Swisscom Ventures has 1 team member, including current Chief Financial Officer, Giancarlo Grassi.

Name

Work History

Title

Status

Giancarlo Grassi

Chief Financial Officer

Current

Name

Giancarlo Grassi

Work History

Title

Chief Financial Officer

Status

Current

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