Investor directory

Qualcomm Ventures

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, established in 2000 to focus on strategic investments in early-stage high-technology ventures, particularly within the wireless sector. With a commitment of $500 million, Qualcomm Ventures has built a diverse portfolio of over 150 active companies and achieved more than 20 successful exits, including notable firms such as Cruise Automation and Fitbit. The organization operates globally, establishing regional funds in strategic markets such as Korea, Japan, China, and Europe to foster local innovation. Qualcomm Ventures seeks to invest between $500,000 and $10 million primarily at the expansion stage, targeting emerging technologies and business models that enhance the mobile technology ecosystem and complement Qualcomm's existing products and services. Through its investments, Qualcomm Ventures aims to connect entrepreneurs with essential resources and industry expertise to drive their success.
http://www.qualcommventures.com
https://crunchbase.com/organization/qualcomm-ventures
https://linkedin.com/company/qualcomm-ventures
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/11279-08
https://signal.nfx.com/firms/qualcomm-ventures
https://twitter.com/qualcommventure
https://www.capitaliq.com/CIQDotNet/company.aspx?companyId=546838
https://www.privateequityinternational.com/database/#/profile?id=3901
5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, California 92121-1714, USA

Sachin Deshpande

Senior Director

Michel Glezer

Investment Director

Swapna Gupta

Director

Carlos Kokron

Vice President and Managing Director of North America

Song Mao

Senior Investment Director

James Shen

Vice President and Managing Director

Richard Tapalaga

Investment Director

Merav Weinryb

Vice President and Managing Director, Israel and Europe

Nan Zhou

Director

Past deals in PaaS

Spectro Cloud

Series C in 2024
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

ScyllaDB

Series C in 2023
ScyllaDB is a developer of high-performance column store database software tailored for data-intensive applications that demand low latency and scalability. The company, based in Herzliya, Israel, offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its database, which can be deployed across various environments. Additionally, ScyllaDB provides a fully-managed Database as a Service (DBaaS) called ScyllaDB Cloud, available on platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. Its technology supports wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB has leveraged its expertise in unikernel technology to optimize performance and management for modern multi-core server infrastructures, enabling organizations to effectively scale their data operations.

Spectro Cloud

Venture Round in 2023
Spectro Cloud, Inc. is a technology firm based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in Kubernetes management solutions. Established in 2019, the company offers the Palette platform, which simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes environments across diverse infrastructures, including public clouds, private clouds, data centers, and bare metal. Palette enables Platform Engineering, IT Operations, and DevOps teams to efficiently manage the entire Kubernetes lifecycle while ensuring compliance, security, and operational health. The platform supports both virtual machine and container workloads, providing tailored Kubernetes stacks that cater to specific organizational needs. Spectro Cloud has received recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor and a CRN Tech Innovator, and is acknowledged as a leader in GigaOm’s 2024 Radars for Edge Kubernetes and Managed Kubernetes.

Extreme Vision Technology

Series B in 2019
Extreme Vision is a PaaS cloud platform for computer vision algorithms. Provide cloud architecture for developers, solve camera compatibility issues, reduce development costs, assist in algorithm distribution, and provide underlying technical support. Provide users with independent choice space, compatible with multiple algorithms on the same terminal, friendly interactive interface, and low-cost services.

ScyllaDB

Series C in 2019
ScyllaDB is a developer of high-performance column store database software tailored for data-intensive applications that demand low latency and scalability. The company, based in Herzliya, Israel, offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its database, which can be deployed across various environments. Additionally, ScyllaDB provides a fully-managed Database as a Service (DBaaS) called ScyllaDB Cloud, available on platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. Its technology supports wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB has leveraged its expertise in unikernel technology to optimize performance and management for modern multi-core server infrastructures, enabling organizations to effectively scale their data operations.

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.

ScyllaDB

Series C in 2018
ScyllaDB is a developer of high-performance column store database software tailored for data-intensive applications that demand low latency and scalability. The company, based in Herzliya, Israel, offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its database, which can be deployed across various environments. Additionally, ScyllaDB provides a fully-managed Database as a Service (DBaaS) called ScyllaDB Cloud, available on platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. Its technology supports wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB has leveraged its expertise in unikernel technology to optimize performance and management for modern multi-core server infrastructures, enabling organizations to effectively scale their data operations.

ScyllaDB

Series B in 2017
ScyllaDB is a developer of high-performance column store database software tailored for data-intensive applications that demand low latency and scalability. The company, based in Herzliya, Israel, offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its database, which can be deployed across various environments. Additionally, ScyllaDB provides a fully-managed Database as a Service (DBaaS) called ScyllaDB Cloud, available on platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. Its technology supports wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB has leveraged its expertise in unikernel technology to optimize performance and management for modern multi-core server infrastructures, enabling organizations to effectively scale their data operations.

ScyllaDB

Venture Round in 2015
ScyllaDB is a developer of high-performance column store database software tailored for data-intensive applications that demand low latency and scalability. The company, based in Herzliya, Israel, offers both open-source and enterprise versions of its database, which can be deployed across various environments. Additionally, ScyllaDB provides a fully-managed Database as a Service (DBaaS) called ScyllaDB Cloud, available on platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. Its technology supports wide-column NoSQL workloads and is fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB. Founded as Cloudius Systems, ScyllaDB has leveraged its expertise in unikernel technology to optimize performance and management for modern multi-core server infrastructures, enabling organizations to effectively scale their data operations.

SkyDesk

Venture Round in 2000
Founded in 1996 in San Diego, Calif., as @Backup, newly renamed SkyDesk is the leading provider of services for businesses wanting to provide their customers with a complete Internet storage, file access and sharing, and PC migration solution. By allowing businesses to outsource their storage, retrieval and migration of information, SkyDesk extends its backup technologies to create a user's virtual desktop from which information can be accessed anywhere, anytime. SkyDesk's massively scalable services are endorsed, distributed and marketed by industry leading ISPs, software publishers and hardware manufacturers.
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