Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom is a leading telecommunications company based in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1995. It provides a comprehensive range of services, including fixed-network and broadband voice and data communication. The company also sells terminal equipment and hardware while offering additional services tailored for resellers. Deutsche Telekom focuses on enhancing connected life and work for its customers through innovative solutions. Its subsidiary, Deutsche Telekom International Finance B.V., operates in Germany, Austria, and Hungary, issuing debt instruments to support the group's financial needs. The company's Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) serve as a hub for innovation, collaborating with business units to drive product development and transformation within the organization.

Thomas Claus

Senior Investment Manager

Marie Dowling

Investment Director

Oliver Fietz

MD Digital Services and Special Investments

Christoph Greitemann

Senior Investor Relations Manager

Timotheus Hottges

Chief Executive Officer

Christian Illek

Chief Financial Officer and Board member for Finance

Lars Michaelsen

Investment Professional

Andreas Puy

Vice President of Investor Relations

Thomas Ris

Vice President of Investor Relations

Peer Robbach

Senior Investor Relations Manager

Florian Steger

Investment Director

Hannes Wittig

Head of Investor Relations

41 past transactions

Teraki

Private Placement in 2018
Teraki GmbH develops software solutions for scaling of Insurance, predictive maintenance, and autonomous driving applications by enabling access to more qualitative data. Its software enables to fulfil low-latency SLAs required by the end-user and ultimately to adapt key KPIs such as cost-per-mile at the highest precision and lowest latency. The software also enables automotive insurance (UBI), predictive maintenance, fleet management and AD applications to perform in high volume, production series. It also offers crash detection, and autonomous driving services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

T-Mobile

Acquisition in 2014
T-Mobile Ventures is an early-to-mid stage venture fund that invests in companies developing core technologies, products, and services that unlock the power of a nationwide 5G network. Its primary focus areas include Edge Computing, Future of Work, Security, and Industrial IoT. It was founded in 2020 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Hellenic Telecommunications

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides telecommunications and related services to businesses and individuals primarily in Greece and Romania. It operates through OTE, COSMOTE Group, TELEKOM ROMANIA, and Other segments. The company offers fixed-line, Internet access, and ICT services; and international carrier and TV production services. It also provides mobile and satellite telecommunication, electronic money, e-commerce, financing, consultancy and security, real estate, insurance brokerage, training, wholesale telephony, retail, marketing, overdue accounts management, wholesale broadband, and infrastructure services. The company was founded in 1949 and is based in Athens, Greece.

AutoRef

Seed Round in 2013
AutoRef’s mission is to bridge the gap between car dealerships and customers. We believe the entire process of shopping for a car should be easy, fast and enjoyable. We built this service because we think there is a better way. AutoRef allows consumers to negotiate online for new and used vehicles. The service is completely free, and we work with over 5,000 dealerships nationwide.

Axonize

Series A in 2018
Axonize provides an IoT orchestration platform that completely automates the process of IoT deployment, enabling enterprises to deploy any IoT solution in only a few days. Axonize main 3 pillars are visibility, automation, and analytics.

Axonize

Private Placement in 2018
Axonize provides an IoT orchestration platform that completely automates the process of IoT deployment, enabling enterprises to deploy any IoT solution in only a few days. Axonize main 3 pillars are visibility, automation, and analytics.

HypeLabs

Seed Round in 2019
HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability. Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

GoStudent

Series D in 2022
GoStudent sells memberships for a global school connecting students with world-class teachers in a 1-1 virtual learning setting. GoStudent builds infrastructure for teachers allowing them to focus on the teaching part and everything else being taken care of. The screening, onboarding and maintaining of teachers is data driven and gives them a 2-year advance against possible competition. Their model is scalable in every country globally since it does not depend on local curriculum and content generation. Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in Vienna in Austria.

Jawbone

Venture Round in 2011
Jawbone makes personal technology comfortable, usable, and beautiful. The flagship product, the award-winning Jawbone Bluetooth headset with NoiseAssassin™ technology set a new standard for mobile voice quality. Unmatched in the industry, Aliph’s NoiseAssassin technology was originally perfected with DARPA for battlefield applications. It eliminates background noise and provides unparalleled call clarity in all environments.

Slovak Telekom, a.s.

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Slovak Telekom, member of the multinational Deutsche Telekom Group, is the largest Slovak multimedia operator with many years of experience and responsible approach to doing business. Slovak Telekom offers a full range of data and voice services, owns and operates the fixed and mobile telecommunications network.

GTS Central Europe

Acquisition in 2013
GTS Central Europe, owned by Deutsche Telekom, is the leading infrastructure-based telecommunications service provider in Central and Eastern Europe. For 20 years, we have committed ourselves to providing service excellence and value to 35,000 businesses, carriers, and government institutions. GTS has been dedicated to satisfying the telecommunications needs of businesses and institutions in the CEE region. Helping people work more effectively has enabled us to build a strong and flexible portfolio of top-quality, secure, and reliable solutions. As technology advances, GTS helps you keep pace so that you can continue to focus on expanding your business.

Celvibe

Series B in 2001
Celvibe develops advanced solutions for streaming high-quality live television broadcasts to mobile users. The core technology enables the seamless delivery of rich media content in the most efficient manner by providing wireless carriers with a unique system for delivering live multi-channel video and audio to wireless users in realtime. CelFeed, the flagship product, is a realtime MPEG-4 transcoder and streamer for supplying mobile devices with rich media content based on realtime reception quality. CelFeed handles hundreds of concurrent users with live video channels at once, by converting compressed streams of live television broadcasts and existing video content on the fly. Its unique ability to 'feel the network' and dynamically adapt to terminal conditions provides end users with an uninterrupted flow of quality data. Celvibe's patent-pending solutions consist of realtime encoding for deploying highly compressed streams of live television broadcasts over wireless networks, and realtime transcoding for converting existing video content to MPEG-4. Customers and partners include Telco's and wireless carriers who are adding packet switch capabilities to their networks, mobile device manufacturers, content providers, application providers and video server manufacturers.

SavaJe Technologies

Venture Round in 2004
SavaJe Technologies, Inc. provides operating system to support handhelds and wireless devices. It offers SavaJe OS, a wireless Java solution. The company serves information appliances, including smart phones, hand-held computers, personal digital assistants, set-top boxes, and Web pads. SavaJe Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG, 7,700 Mobile Telephone Sites

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
As of September 2015, 7,700 Mobile Telephone Sites of Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG were acquired by Deutsche Telekom AG. Telefónica Deutschland Holding AG, 7,700 Mobile Telephone Sites comprises 7,700 mobile telephone rooftop network base station sites. The asset is located in Germany.

Mopay

Series A in 2000
mopay Inc. provides payment solutions for online merchants worldwide. Its platform enables merchants of virtual, digital, and physical goods to bill charges directly to consumers’ cell phone and land line accounts. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Palo Alto, California with offices in London, United Kingdom and Munich, Germany. It has locations in Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Brazil, and Romania. mopay Inc. operates as a subsidiary of MindMatics AG.

Creators Media

Series B in 2015
Creators Media brands include Movie Pilot, Now Loading, and Champions, home to over 32 million entertainment fans. As both a platform and a social publishing company, we empower fans to communicate with each other and create content, the best of which is curated and distributed to over 32 million fans worldwide. Creators Media has offices in Venice, CA and Berlin, Germany.

Everphone

Series C in 2022
everphone GmbH offers smartphones and tablets rental services for employees. It also repairs, replaces, and exchanges old and damaged tablets and mobile phones. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Deutsche Sportwetten

Acquisition in 2015
Deutsche Sportwetten provides sports betting services.

Justtag Group

Private Placement in 2019
JUSTTAG SP. Z O.O. operates a hyperlocal advertising platform that builds connection between offline and online world. The company engages mobile users through various advertising formats on Wi-Fi networks in public places; targets offline audience; and assists marketers in measuring and analyzing the impact of online campaigns to offline world. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

ShareThis

Series C in 2013
ShareThis transforms authentic human sharing behavior into actionable data outputs at scale for marketers and publishers. It has been collecting and synthesizing social share data since 2007.

StarVOX

Series A in 2005
StarVox products are sold and serviced through major solution providers such as Hewlett Packard as a complete, factory-integrated IP telephony solution for service providers. The HP/StarVox Next Generation Telephony Solution combines StarVox software with HP's Open Call Multi Controller application platforms and Cisco Powered Network equipment, making it a carrier-grade, industry-standard solution that will allow a full range of value-added services and upgrades

Everphone

Series C in 2021
everphone GmbH offers smartphones and tablets rental services for employees. It also repairs, replaces, and exchanges old and damaged tablets and mobile phones. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
Xura Secure Communications is part of Acision and provides international companies a powerful communication solution for the mobile channel. Their core product, the mobile messaging platform that provides highly reliable and cost-efficient global message transmission and reception. As a specialist in cellular-based support for business processes, They offer messaging integration solutions - meet the highest standards of coverage, availability, security, and throughput - documented about Their SLAs.

1NCE

Funding Round in 2021
1NCE GmbH provides Internet data connectivity services. It provides narrowband and low bandwidth connections for low data business to business applications. The company offers a sim card for activating, receiving, and configuring data plans. It caters to the Internet of Things market. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

Delta Telekommunikationsdienste GmbH

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Delta Telekommunikationsdienste GmbH owns national radio licenses including broadband wireless access (BWA) licenses and regional wireless local loop (WLL) licenses with corresponding network. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Dusseldorf, Germany. As of July 27, 2015, Delta Telekommunikationsdienste GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Telekom Deutschland GmbH.

ClickandBuy

Acquisition in 2010
ClickandBuy is an online payment service provider with strong presence in Europe. With around 10 million customers, it is the second largest Internet payment brand behind Paypal.

Ranovus

Series B in 2014
RANOVUS Inc. develops and manufactures multi-terabit interconnect solutions for datacenter and communications networks in the telecommunications and information technology industries. It offers quantum dot multi-wavelength laser technology, and advanced digital and photonics integrated circuit technologies for the optical interconnect solutions. RANOVUS Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Ottawa, Canada. It has operations in the United States, Canada, and Germany.

ChooChee

Acquisition in 2013
Founded by successful entrepreneurs and industry veterans, working in close partnership with one of the world's largest global telephony providers, ChooChee is a Mountain View, CA-based startup building the next-generation Cloud-based Unified Communications (CBUC) platform for the consumer and SME markets. ChooChee's CBUC platform will deliver both real-time communication services such as instant messaging, presence and location-based services, telephony, video, call control and more, as well as non-real-time communication services such as integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax - all via the Cloud, accessible to you via web or mobile app. When we launch, you'll be able to simply sign up for ChooChee online or at one of thousands of retail locations, and get instant access to intuitively easy-to-use services. No hardware to buy or install onsite, no intensive multi-day configuration, and no waiting. If you're one of our partners' 150 million mobile subscribers, ChooChee's services will be available as an option on your current plan.

Compass-EOS

Series E in 2011
Compass-EOS radically changes network routing by shifting it into the age of silicon photonics. The Compass-EOS icPhotonics technology is the world’s first commercial silicon for inter-chip optical interconnect, unleashing the next revolution in routing architectures. Its family of carrier-grade routers is a new breed of scale-out routers, enabling SDN-based, simplified architectures in service provider networks. Since 2006 Compass has attracted top-tier investors ranging from leading venture capital funds to service providers and core routing suppliers.

Lookout

Series E in 2013
Lookout is a cybersecurity company that predicts and stops mobile attacks before harm is done to an individual or an enterprise. Lookout’s cloud-based technology is fueled by a global sensor network of more than 60 million users and tens of thousands of apps that are added daily. With this dataset of virtually all the mobile code in the world and the predictive machine intelligence to analyze and make sense of the data, Lookout can identify connections that would otherwise go unseen and stop cybercriminals from attacking mobile devices. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Boston, London, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C.

MOJIO

Private Placement in 2017
Mojio is an open platform that offers a solution for the rapid deployment of secure and scalable aftermarket connected car services to enterprise customers, including mobile operators, automotive OEMs, car dealers, service centers, auto insurers, and fleets. The platform enables intelligent data analysis that unlocks previously unavailable revenue streams and cost-saving opportunities. It facilitates the efficient integration of vehicle data into new and existing applications for developers. Mojio, which was launched in 2011, enables developers to access advanced tools and resources, including interactive documentation and tutorials, mobile SDKs, and a vehicle simulator.

Goingsoft

Acquisition in 2019
goingsoft GmbH provides Wi-Fi and WLAN services to hotels. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in St. Johann In Tirol, Austria. As of January 11, 2019, goingsoft GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Telekom Deutschland GmbH.

DeviceHub

Angel Round in 2015
DeviceHub.net empowers ambitious developers to build tomorrow. We provide an integrated solution for IoT projects development, combining cloud integration with business intelligence in order to integrate both hardware and web technologies. We offer data gathering, cloud logic, triggers, real-time remote control, and analytics in a friendly user interface. We offer a PaaS (Platform as a Service) through which the hardware/mobile developers can connect and remotely manage multiple devices. This has enabled individuals and SMEs to rapidly develop systems for fleet management, intelligent vending machines, global container tracking, wearable electronics and many others. Our PaaS offering is modular and built to scale with security and performance as primary objectives. It can be fully white-labeled, re-branded, and installed on-premise or in a Virtual Private Cloud for Enterprise-grade deployments.

predict.io

Seed Round in 2014
It is hard to engage app users. Timing is everything. Sending a push in the wrong moment gets you uninstalled. Using smartphone sensors to understand user context is difficult. The company gives developers an SDK that provides user context. The SDK is installed within minutes. It only consumes 0.2% battery per hour. It shows higher accuracy than OS embedded Activity APIs. And it works across platforms iOS, Android, Phonegap. Once activated predict.io constantly reads the sensors (accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, etc.). The data is pre-processed directly on the device. When a pattern is recognized predict.io fires a "callback"​. The developer can trigger any activity within our outside of his app based on our "callback"​. Once activated we constantly read the sensors (accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, etc.). We pre-process the data directly on the device. When a pattern is recognized we fire a "callback". The developer can trigger any activity within our outside of his app based on our "callback".

Hype Labs Ltd.

Private Placement in 2019
Hype Labs Ltd. develops and provides cloud based SDK for network connectivity serving companies and developers. Its SDK is used for sharing and collaboration, social networking, and offline chat, as well as run on iOS/OSX, Windows, and Android devices. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Porto, Portugal.

SK Gaming

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
SK Gaming GmbH & Co. KG, an esports company, focuses on video game activities. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Cologne, Germany. SK Gaming GmbH & Co. KG operates as a subsidiary of ESforce Holding ltd.

Webex

Series C in 1999
WebEx, now part of Cisco, provides on-demand applications for collaborative business on the Web. These applications enhance high-touch business processes, such as sales and training, with Web-touch interactions. As an on-demand provider, WebEx facilitates both internal and external collaboration. Applications are delivered over the WebEx MediaTone Network, a global network specifically designed for the highly secure delivery of on-demand applications. WebEx applications support multipoint video conferencing, Web conferencing, telework and application remote control.

Strato

Acquisition in 2009
STRATO AG offers web hosting services mainly in Germany and the Netherlands. The company provides domains, e-mail packages, complete website packages, webshops, servers, online storage, and individual high-end hosting solutions. It was formerly known as TECT- TELES eCommerce Track AG. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany. It has two data centers in Berlin and Karlsruhe. STRATO AG is a former subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG. As of March 31, 2017, STRATO AG operates as a subsidiary of United Internet AG.

Teridion

Corporate Round in 2022
Teridion Technologies Ltd. provides public-cloud based wide area network (WAN) service through Internet overlay network of public cloud providers. Its solutions include Teridion for enterprise, a cloud native WAN service providing multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) replacement, software-as-a-service (SaaS) acceleration, cloud access, and site-to-site acceleration; Teridion for SaaS providers, which includes SaaS content collaboration, SaaS geographic expansion, dynamic and bidirectional SaaS traffic; and Teridion curated routing, a combination of routing optimization and protocol acceleration that provides the enterprises a reliable network. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel.

DeepSkill

Seed Round in 2023
We are Deep Skill - the platform for digital coaching programs. We develop unique coaching programs for topics such as leadership, transformation, and work family balance. Our goal is to digitalize the complete coaching journey and enable everyone to profit from tailored and sustainable coaching programs with the help of machine learning.