Success breeds success
What does Deutsche Telekom, a global technology and service leader, look for in Israel? Innovation, the healthy hi-tech ecosystem in Israel is comprised of over 6,000 companies with about 1,000 new companies being created every year. Attitude, there is no time to wait, if you try (and you may fail) you can succeed. Deutsche Telekom’s active engagement in Israel spans back t
o the early 2000s. The small, highly motivated, and results driven local team currently focuses on research (T-Labs Ben Gurion University), early engagement and investment (hub:raum), growth stage and mature company partnering (Group Partnering and Business Development), and growth stage investment (Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners). T-Labs BGU – was established in 2004 as a conduit between DT experts and leading scientists to translate their future visions of information technology and telecommunications into reality. The lab excels in security, analytics, and applied machine learning. Some examples of recent projects run are the Virtual Security Officer that automates security and security governance for small and medium businesses and XDR synthesized data that will enable DT to simulate customer behavior and provide personalization without infringing on privacy. http://tlabs.bgu.ac.il
Hub:raum – expanded beyond Krakow and Berlin to Israel in 2014 and has become an active player in the early stage ecosystem. In addition to having invested in two seed stage companies, hub:raum is actively engaged with forward looking activities, such as the NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) prototyping hub run together with the M2M division where 7 of the 24 participants were sourced from Israel. The prototyping hub provided DT with value insights on IoT services ahead of the pan-EU rollout of NB-IoT that started this year. www.hubraum.com
PI Group Partnering and Business Development – added Israel to the Silicon Valley, London, and EU teams in 2013 to provide a scouting and bridging service between DT divisions and business units and mature Israeli startups. To date, DT has engaged and partnered with over 20 Israeli companies across wide array of revenue generating and operational efficiency applications, e.g. security, B2C, B2B, cloud, analytics, and digitization. Most recently, Telekom Security announced and launched partnerships with CyberArk, CyberX, and Radiflow at CeBit. https://www.telekom.com/en/company/partnering
Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners – from its inception in 2015, DTCP has been actively investing in technology driven companies in Israel and has quickly gained a reputation as a top-tier investor. To date, DTCP has invested in 7; companies, spanning the security, augmented reality/virtual reality, travel, and analytics sectors. In this short time frame, DTCP has already realized a successful exit when Intel purchased Replay Technologies for $175m for its cutting-edge 360 degree AR/VR technology. telekom-capital.com
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