SK Telecom Ventures

Micron Ventures primary objective is to assist Micron Technology in supporting the long-term needs of its customers. As a key component of Micron's innovation strategy, early stage equity investments provide Micron with access to technologies, markets, applications and key innovations influencing semiconductor related markets. Launched in 2006, Micron Ventures is responsible for investing in early stage technology companies whose technologies are salient to the strategic interests of Micron. Micron Ventures is targeting next generation memory solutions, semiconductor processing solutions, embedded, wireless, computing, and storage technologies that leverage the power of memory.

KPN Ventures is the venturing arm of KPN, The Netherlands’ leading telecom & ICT company. We focus on early growth-stage investments (series A, B & C) in European and US high growth companies in the segments depicted on the right side. Our investments typically range from 1 to 5 million euro for minority stakes, building long-term partnerships, ultimately aiming for external exits, not acquisitions. Our key investment criteria are: experienced and diverse team, innovative product with unique competitive advantage, international market potential, sustainability, potential for cooperation with KPN, commercial traction (€1M revenues) and attractive deal structure. We aim to build value-creating partnerships with innovative European or US-based technology companies, accelerating innovation and growth by providing access to capital, industry expertise, technical infrastructure, professional network and channels to customers. Industry Expertise Get support from experts in the field of telecommunications, networking technology, cloud computing, cyber security, data & analytics, sales, marketing, finance, legal & regulatory, patents, etc. Infrastructure Build your business on high quality communication infrastructure, including KPN’s high quality communication networks for voice, messaging, data and IOT, its data-centers, cloud hosting and communication, security and data services, e.g. through API’s. Channels to Customers & Industry Network Get access to KPN’s customer base of millions of residential customers and hundreds of thousands of business customers in The Netherlands and abroad, its large industry network of global tech suppliers and partners, and KPN Ventures’ international network of investors.

We invest across consumer and enterprise and have partnered with thousands of inspiring entrepreneurs over the past two decades. We have a track record of backing great entrepreneurs at the earliest stages. Since 1999, Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. The firm invests in startups across the seed, early and growth phases. Redpoint has backed over 465 companies with 140 IPOs and M+As, including 2U, HomeAway, Heroku, Netflix, PureStorage, Twilio and Zendesk, and incubated market disruptors like Android. In total, the firm manages $4 billion across multiple funds. Redpoint is based in Menlo Park and has offices in San Francisco, Beijing and Shanghai.

We’re looking for companies focused on: Data Science: Data science covers the platforms, sensors, devices and analytics that create and extract valuable data. These technologies are becoming as important to business as the internet. They rely on all the other pillars to exist but could radically alter them all once fully harnessed. Cloud: The Cloud’s computing power, lower implementation risks and attractive storage costs are enabling innovative startups to be disruptive and bring new, lower cost ways of doing things to market, faster than ever before. Startups in this space have an incredibly large opportunity in front of them and those that succeed become very valuable. Connectivity: Addressing the more-for-less paradigm of next generation communications. Network infrastructure and device technology which can reduce ownership cost for the operator and at the same time meet the customer demand for ever increasing mobility and ubiquity. With our team’s background at Vodafone, we pride ourselves on providing invaluable support to entrepreneurs. Security: Cybercrime is growing. Tougher firewalls, rigorous policing and strict policy enforcement are insufficient and increasingly unaffordable. Enterprise security breaches are on the increase, from inside and outside, aggravated by the trend of bring your own devices. Companies which can build security systems that are equipped to protect us are pivotal to the future. Where we invest Anywhere in Europe and Israel. Our team is spread throughout the UK, but we’ve got portfolio companies in Belgium and Israel, and we love to travel! When we invest Typically between £1-5m (or between Seed and Growth stage). In simple terms, we look for companies that have gained some validation of technology and/or product fit from potential long-term customers. We want to see that you’re poised to enter a large and growing market. How we invest We do our own due diligence on the companies we invest in. Depending on the complexity of your technology, we take around three months to make a decision and build conviction around the investment. Given we’re investing for the long-term (10+ years) we want to be comfortable that we’re the right partner for you. We provide feedback to every company that gets in touch. What are we looking for?Technology: Characterised by defensible IP, science-based innovation, lowering costs and increasing performance Team: Technically gifted and entrepreneurial teams with the potential to build a company of global scale Market: Detailed insight leading to a go-to-market plan for a highly attractive and fast-growing global market Customers: Clear validation or route to validation of the technology’s USPs from long-term potential customers Productisation: Can deliver a replicable product or service in a scalable way, starting with PoC validation Ambition: Focused on winning a significant share of the identified market on the road to building a £500m+ valued company

Our global sphere of knowledge drives our investment thesis across all industries. We serve on the boards on some of the most innovative technology companies in the world. We see global trends as they are emerging. We combine this knowledge with data, lots of data, to know where the world is heading during the next seven-to-ten-years. We partner with the extraordinary We’ve developed a world class reputation for identifying, investing, and serving extraordinary entrepreneurs. We don’t meddle in their business. When asked, we deliver critical thinking that leads to scale and hypergrowth. We go beyond the investment We drive strategic growth, shorten the time to reach global scale, facilitate introductions, but we don’t stop there. We stick with it until the ink is dried. We drive revenue, recruit, and introduce future investors. As we look out at the next 10 years, we couldn't be more excited as the global world becomes smaller and more tightly connected. Read more to see where we think the industry is heading! We drive real value to our portfolio Through our Revenue Bearing Relationships, we have driven $400M in revenue to more than 40% of our portfolio companies. Technology buyers around the world trust our cohesive vision of the future. They come to us to identify emerging solutions that can give their businesses a competitive advantage.

The worldwide data management software market is massive (IDC forecasts it to be $138 billion by 2026!). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading modern data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity. Ventures is a new practice at MongoDB created to invest in the most exciting companies solving problems for developers and data practitioners. These range from next-generation Platform-as-a-Service businesses to companies creating foundational infrastructure to enable advanced uses of Generative AI.