This document provides an overview of Thomas Grota's background and experience as an Investment Director at T-Venture, the venture capital firm of Deutsche Telekom AG. It outlines Grota's previous roles, areas of VC expertise in mobile internet, big data and cloud-based platforms, and lists some of T-Venture's successful exits through acquisitions or IPOs. The document concludes with Grota emphasizing the importance of a strong team, traction in the form of measurable growth, and generating treasure through paying customers rather than just users.
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What investors are looking for... A view from a Venture Capitalist
1. What Investors are looking for...
... a view from a Venture Capitalist
Thomas Grota, Investment Director T-Venture
@thomasgr Blog: thomasgr.tumblr.com
2. Thomas Grota, Investment Director T-Venture
Venture Capital Firm of Deutsche Telekom AG
CTO of Pironet AG for 7 years (IPO 2000)
Dynamic CMS & Digital Asset Management
Deutsche Telekom 2003 - today:
VP Marketing & Strategy (Paris, London)
IPTV Expert at Detecon (Asia, MENA)
Investment Directorat T-Venture
Exited apprupt to Opera
Exited Swoodoo to Kayak
Exited 6Wunderkinder to Sequoia
Raised +$250m for his portfolios
Thomas Grota –Investment DirectorT-Venture Holding GmbH –@thomasgr
3. My current portfolio and areas of VC expertise:
Mobile Internet, Big Data & Cloud based Platforms
Thomas Grota –Investment DirectorT-Venture Holding GmbH –@thomasgr
4. Selected successful exits of T-Venture
E-Commerce solution
1998: IPO
@motion
Wireless internet access
2000: trade sale to Openwave
(formerly: phone.com)
Webconference
provider
2000: IPO
Internetpaymentservices
2010: tradesaletoDeutscheTelekom
Online FlightSearchandBookings
2010: tradesaletoKAYAK Optical NetworkingApplications
2010: tradesaletoCisco
Fabless Semiconductors
2010: tradesaletoBroadcom Real-TimeCollaboration Software
2011: tradesaletoCitrix
SearchPortal forDiscount
OffersofLocal Retailers
2011: tradesaletoAxel Springer
Wireless AccessTechnology
2012: tradesaletoEricsson
"On-Demand" E-Commerce
2012: IPO Wireless SystemsforHomeNetworks
2012: IPO
SecuritySolution forMobile
EnterpriseDevices
2012: tradesaletoRapid7
Masscalling service
2002: tradesaleto
DeutscheTelekom
Femtocell Technology
2013: tradesaletoCisco
Customer experience
management solution
2009: tradesaletoTektronix
Communications
Mobile messagingsolutions
2008: tradesaletoNokia
Webbasedcalling company
2010: tradesaletoTelefonica
End-to-endwireless internetsolution
2008: tradesaletoMicrosoft
E-Commerce
2006: sharessold to
Holtzbrinck +Weltbild
Multimedia
coresolutions
2007: IPO
Corenetworking
infrastructureprovider
2008: tradesaleto
NokiaSiemens Networks
Social P2Pmedia networking platform
2006: tradesaleto
SonyPicturesEntertainment
M-commerce
infrastructuresolution
2006: tradesaletoAmdocs
Mobile broadband
2005: tradesaleto
QUALCOMM
Transitapplication
2013: trade sale to Apple
Multi-platform productivity solution
2013: trade sale to Sequoia
Mobile advertising
2014: trade sale to OperaSoftware
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my current Portfolio
23. T-Venture Portfolio contains currently 100 companies.
Two Funds managed for Deutsche Telekom AG
Thomas Grota –Investment DirectorT-Venture Holding GmbH –@thomasgr