Telstra Ventures

What is Telstra Ventures?

Telstra Ventures, now known as Titanium Ventures, is a corporate venture capital arm with a focus on technology companies. They operate with a mission to support lighthouse leaders and assist them in realizing their product visions.

With headquarters located at 575 Market Suite Suite 1650 San Francisco, CA 94105 USA, they primarily target investments in software, IT & TMT, media, education, business solutions, FinTech & financial services, energy, clean tech, A.I. & big data, health tech & fitness, blockchain & cryptos, web security & privacy, the future of work, insurance & insurTech, logistics & distribution, investment management, and mobile sectors.

They are interested in firms with revenue between $1M and $20M and traditionally invest in around 10 new companies annually. The fund's investments range from pre-seed to later-stage companies, with a sweet spot around $10 million, though they are capable of investing as much as $20 million or as little as $3 million.

Their specialties include Series C and later, as well as pre-seed, seed, Series A, and Series B rounds. They are known for thematic investing complemented with data science, generating substantial revenues for their portfolio by selling to and through Telstra in Australia and Asia, and have a history of successful exits with 8 IPOs and 9 strategic M&As.

Over more than 12 years, Titanium Ventures has generated over $660 million in incremental revenue for their portfolio companies through their Revenue Acceleration Platform. They emphasize their partnership approach, noting a collaborative, supportive, responsive, and plugged-in attitude towards the growth of their portfolio companies.

The firm operates globally with a notable presence in USA, China, and Australia.

What they say:

We invest in: (i) security, cloud, SaaS, networking, machine learning, data, consumer / media / mobile, logistics, and other emerging sectors; (ii) USA, China or Australia geographies; (iii) high-quality people; (iv) companies with $1M to $20M in revenue, and (v) invests in ~10 new companies each year. Telstra Ventures’ mission is to serve lighthouse leaders and help them deliver on their product dreams. Our differentiation comes from (i) sourcing: thematic investors complemented with data science, (ii) Revenue Bearing Relationships value-add: we have generated $300m in revenues for our portfolio in Australia and Asia by selling to and through Telstra, and (iii) our quality investment process: in 9 years, we have generated 8 IPOs (BigCommerce, Box, Cloopen, Crowdstrike, DocuSign, Skillz, Snap, and Whispir), 9 strategic M&As (Elastica, Elemental, Kony, Nexmo, Nginx, Ooyala, Rancher, TeleSign, and VeloCloud), and 3 additional Unicorns (Auth0, GitLab, UBtech).