Qualcomm Ventures

Qualcomm Ventures, established in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego, California, serves as the venture capital investment arm of Qualcomm. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in technology-driven companies across various sectors, including artificial intelligence, automotive, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, mobile technology, and extended reality. Qualcomm Ventures manages several regional funds to foster innovation in key markets, including dedicated funds for East Asia and Europe. Its portfolio features over 140 active companies and has achieved significant financial success, including multiple exits valued at over one billion dollars. Qualcomm Ventures typically invests between $500,000 and $10 million, targeting ventures with strong growth potential that align with Qualcomm's strategic interests in advancing next-generation technologies.

Michel Glezer

Director

Tushar Gupta

Senior Director

Carlos Kokron

Vice President and Managing Director of North America

Yan Li

Director

Quinn Li

Senior Vice President and Global Head

Song Mao

Senior Investment Director

Boaz Peer

Senior Investment Director, Israel and Europe

James Shen

Vice President

Varsha Tagare

Senior Director

Richard Tapalaga

Director

Albert Wang

Senior Investment Director

Nan Zhou

Director

Past deals in Hardware

RealWear

Series C in 2022
RealWear, Inc. specializes in developing hands-free head-mounted tablets tailored for industrial workers, enhancing safety and productivity in demanding environments. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, the company offers the HMT-1, a rugged wearable Android-class tablet designed to be worn with an industrial helmet. This device supports communication between field workers and remote consultants, allowing real-time visual assistance for tasks such as repairs. RealWear's technology is optimized for noisy settings, enabling users to receive information and voice messages seamlessly. The company has established strategic partnerships with notable industry leaders, including Atheer, Cisco, Qualcomm, ABB, and Beeware, to further its mission of digital transformation in industrial sectors.

Humane

Series B in 2021
Humane Inc is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on creating and selling consumer hardware, software, and services designed to enhance the human experience. Founded in 2016, the company aims to develop products that foster genuine collaboration between design and engineering, prioritizing the needs and well-being of users. By crafting technology that feels familiar and natural, Humane seeks to facilitate a more intuitive interaction between people and computing, enabling both companies and customers to engage with innovative devices and platforms.

Humane

Series A in 2020
Humane Inc is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on creating and selling consumer hardware, software, and services designed to enhance the human experience. Founded in 2016, the company aims to develop products that foster genuine collaboration between design and engineering, prioritizing the needs and well-being of users. By crafting technology that feels familiar and natural, Humane seeks to facilitate a more intuitive interaction between people and computing, enabling both companies and customers to engage with innovative devices and platforms.

RealWear

Series B in 2019
RealWear, Inc. specializes in developing hands-free head-mounted tablets tailored for industrial workers, enhancing safety and productivity in demanding environments. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, the company offers the HMT-1, a rugged wearable Android-class tablet designed to be worn with an industrial helmet. This device supports communication between field workers and remote consultants, allowing real-time visual assistance for tasks such as repairs. RealWear's technology is optimized for noisy settings, enabling users to receive information and voice messages seamlessly. The company has established strategic partnerships with notable industry leaders, including Atheer, Cisco, Qualcomm, ABB, and Beeware, to further its mission of digital transformation in industrial sectors.

GizWits

Venture Round in 2018
GizWits is a smart hardware self-development and cloud service platform. It launched China's first PaaS and SaaS platform. It is China's largest Internet of things development platform, China's first technology incubation platform, and China's largest Internet of Things developer community. The company was founded in 2005 in the United States in New York and Guangzhou, China, is a returnee entrepreneurial company.

Dover Microsystems

Seed Round in 2018
Dover Microsystems, Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, specializing in security software solutions for processor designers, integrators, and manufacturers using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The company has developed CoreGuard, a security technology that integrates directly with processors to monitor and verify each instruction execution against established security, safety, and privacy rules. This hardware-based approach enables processors to actively defend themselves against network-based attacks and the exploitation of software vulnerabilities in real-time. Additionally, Dover Microsystems offers a software development kit (SDK) that includes tools for simulation, micropolicy authoring, and debugging, facilitating the prototyping of CoreGuard-integrated designs. The company's technology serves a range of industries, including semiconductors, industrial IoT, transportation, medical, energy, home entertainment, and point of sale, with a mission to enhance the security of processors worldwide. Founded in 2009, Dover Microsystems aims to provide robust protection against ransomware and other cyber threats.

Excelero

Series B in 2015
Excelero, Inc. specializes in low-latency distributed block storage solutions designed for web-scale and enterprise applications. Founded in 2014 and based in San Jose, California, the company developed NVMesh, a software-defined block storage solution that employs Elastic NVMe technology. This innovation enables unmodified applications to access pooled NVMe storage devices across a network with local speed and latency. Excelero's solutions cater to a diverse range of sectors, including data analytics, machine learning, media and entertainment for post-production, and high-performance computing. By leveraging NVMesh, customers can create high-performance Server SANs that efficiently handle mixed workloads while benefiting from centralized storage without being locked into proprietary hardware. This approach significantly reduces total storage costs while enhancing scalability and performance, making it suitable for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services and large-scale simulation visualization.

Avalanche Technology

Series D in 2012
Avalanche Technology, Inc. develops and markets a non-volatile spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory device. It offers its device for applications in mobile (consumer wearable devices), Internet of Things, enterprise storage, computing, networking, telecommunication, automotive, and other industries. Avalanche Technology, Inc. was formerly known as Yadav Technology Inc. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Fremont, California.

Avalanche Technology

Series C in 2012
Avalanche Technology, Inc. develops and markets a non-volatile spin transfer torque magnetic random access memory device. It offers its device for applications in mobile (consumer wearable devices), Internet of Things, enterprise storage, computing, networking, telecommunication, automotive, and other industries. Avalanche Technology, Inc. was formerly known as Yadav Technology Inc. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Fremont, California.

Xiaomi

Series B in 2011
Xiaomi Corporation is an internet company based in Beijing that specializes in the manufacture and distribution of smartphones, consumer electronics, and internet services. Founded in 2010, Xiaomi operates through several segments, including Smartphones, IoT and Lifestyle Products, Internet Services, and Others. The Smartphones segment focuses on selling a range of mobile devices, while the IoT and Lifestyle Products segment includes smart TVs, laptops, AI speakers, and various lifestyle items. The Internet Services segment offers advertising and value-added services, and the Others segment provides hardware repair services. Xiaomi aims to create a comprehensive user experience by integrating user feedback into product design and continuously innovating its offerings. It also engages in wholesale and retail activities, software and hardware development, and operates retail stores and service centers in multiple countries, including India, Russia, and various European nations. The company's commitment to providing high-quality products at competitive prices has fostered a loyal customer base both in China and internationally.

Wilocity

Seed Round in 2008
Wilocity Ltd. is a company based in Caesarea, Israel, that specializes in the development of 60 GHz wireless chipsets aimed at the notebook and peripheral markets. Founded in 2007, Wilocity's technology enables gigabit wireless networking and point-to-point connectivity, delivering a desktop-like experience to mobile computing devices. The company's chipsets facilitate high-speed downloads and support high-definition video, significantly surpassing the transmission rates of standard Wi-Fi. By focusing on WiGig/802.11 products, Wilocity equips customers with the ability to wirelessly connect to any PCI Express-supported peripheral or I/O component, enhancing the mobile computing experience.

Discera

Series C in 2007
Discera, Inc. is a fabless analog semiconductor company that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of silicon resonators for radio frequency (RF) and timing control applications. The company offers a range of products, including CMOS resonator-based oscillators, RF circuits, clock frequency devices, and resonator-based frequency control components. These products are utilized in various consumer and mobile electronics, such as cellular radios, cameras, MP3 players, GPS systems, disk drives, and television players, in addition to military equipment. Discera distributes its products through a network of distributors in the United States and internationally.

Discera

Venture Round in 2005
Discera, Inc. is a fabless analog semiconductor company that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of silicon resonators for radio frequency (RF) and timing control applications. The company offers a range of products, including CMOS resonator-based oscillators, RF circuits, clock frequency devices, and resonator-based frequency control components. These products are utilized in various consumer and mobile electronics, such as cellular radios, cameras, MP3 players, GPS systems, disk drives, and television players, in addition to military equipment. Discera distributes its products through a network of distributors in the United States and internationally.
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