Swisscom Ventures

Category:

Corporate Venture

Description:

Swisscom Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Swisscom and seeks to acquire minority stakes in companies that operate in markets for information, communication and entertainment technologies. Swisscom Ventures primarily invests in areas that are strategic for Swisscom, in terms of revenue increase (e.g. new broadband services), quality improvements and cost reductions (e.g. network optimisation tools). Swisscom Ventures aims to provide companies with the technical know-how and strategic experience of an established telecommunications provider Swisscom Ventures' parent company is Switzerland's telecoms provider, with over 5 million mobile customers and around 5.3 million fixed-lines (including more than 1.6 million broadband connections). Alongside the traditional product and service offerings in the area of telecommunications, Swisscom has a strategic focus on the distribution of video content, currently with, for example, Bluewin TV and Bluewin TV mobile.

Location:

Switzerland

Bern

Notes:

Must have a tech element