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Qualcomm Ventures
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Qualcomm Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, founded in 2000 and headquartered in San Diego. It invests in early- to growth-stage high-tech startups that complement and extend Qualcomm's wireless technology leadership, with a mission to 'advance intelligent computing everywhere.' The firm targets companies in AI, automotive, mobile, enterprise & data center, and smart systems (IoT/5G/XR), backing category leaders that are disrupting industries and strategically aligned with Qualcomm's ecosystem. With over $3B in capital deployed across 500+ portfolio companies in seven global regions, Qualcomm Ventures leverages its parent company's deep technology expertise, semiconductor IP, and global network to provide portfolio companies with strategic introductions, domain knowledge, and access to Qualcomm's product groups and operator relationships — what the team calls an 'unfair advantage' in deep tech sectors.
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“My number one criterion is the people. The team is very important. Absolutely. I also look at whether the product, or the thing the company is trying to sell, has a unique value proposition. The validation of that is either the business has revenue, or if it's early stage, that it solves a unique problem in the marketplace.”
“We have a proven track record of investing in category leaders that are disrupting industries, such as Zoom, SentinelOne, Ring, Xiaomi, Hugging Face, and Anthropic. With over $2 billion in assets under management and more than 150 active companies across seven geographies, each investment is strategically aligned with Qualcomm's mission to enable intelligent computing everywhere and drive innovation across industries.”
“In recent years, we have expanded to 5G, AI, automotive, IoT and (different) connectivity tech. Our investment mandates are aligned with our business verticals.”
Team
Quinn Li
Senior Vice President & Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures
Varsha Tagare
Senior Director
Rama Bethmangalkar
Managing Director, India
Boaz Peer
Managing Director, Israel & Europe
Song Mao
Managing Director, China
Nan Zhou
Director
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Series C/D | — | 2023-01-01 |
| Hugging Face | Series D | $235m | 2023-08-01 |
| Cerebras Systems | Series F / IPO | — | 2024-01-01 |
| Scale AI | Series F | $1.0b | 2024-05-21 |
| Figure | Series B | $675m | 2024-02-01 |
| NEURA Robotics | Series C | $1.4b | 2026-06-10 |
| Cloudflare | Series E / IPO | — | 2019-09-13 |
| SentinelOne | Series E / IPO | — | 2021-06-30 |
| Cohesity | Series E | — | 2021-01-01 |
| Cresta | Series C | — | 2022-01-01 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Accel | 13 |
| SoftBank Vision Fund | 8 |
| Tiger Global Management | 7 |
| Intel Capital | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| NGP Capital | 5 |
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