Investor Type | Firm |
Type of Fund | VC |
Industries | Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Future Of Work • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Investment Management • Mobile • Woman Focused |
Stages | Series C,Later, Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B |
Investing | United States • Canada • Australia • China • Israel |
Investment Range | $3,000,000 - $20,000,000 |
Investment Sweet Spot | $10,000,000 |
Telstra Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Telstra seeking to invest in technology companies based in Australia, Asia Pacific and Silicon Valley, California. The firm invests in the later stages such as series C, D, and E rounds. The company focuses primarily on the cloud, mobile, healthcare, media and video content sectors. Founded in 2011, the firm is based in Sydney, Australia.
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).