
Qualcomm
Corporate venture capital arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, investing in early to growth-stage technology companies.
About
Qualcomm Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Qualcomm Incorporated, focusing on strategic investments in wireless technology and other transformative sectors. The firm invests in early to growth-stage companies in areas such as AI, automotive, mobile, enterprise, and smart systems, leveraging Qualcomm's technological expertise and global network to support startups.
Key facts
- Website
- qualcommventures.com
- Type
- Corporate VC
- Headquarters
- San Diego, United States
- Funds raised
- $2.0B
- Portfolio companies
- 14
- Stages
- Series CSeries DSeedSeries ASeries B
- Cheque size
- $120K to $1.3B
- Sector focus
- New MediaMusicLessonsEducationComputing
Recent investments
| Date | Company | Round | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Aug 2026 | Lumilens | Series C | $700M |
| 5 Aug 2026 | Horizon3.ai | Funding Round | $20M |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Horizon3.ai | Series E | $250M |
| 17 Apr 2026 | SenseTime | Share Placement | $415M |
| 10 Jun 2025 | Horizon3.ai | Series D | $100M |
| 12 May 2025 | Classiq | Series C | $110M |
| 15 May 2024 | Weka | Series E | $140M |
| 15 May 2024 | WekaIO | Secondary Transaction | $40M |
| 15 May 2024 | WekaIO | Series E | $100M |
| 13 Nov 2023 | Classiq | Undisclosed round | $18M |
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Qualcomm layoff. Which BUs are in the target list?. Which BU is most likely to be effected? Any idea about GPU? Any information is useful.
CA dropped a bomb (Layoffs). Blood bath 🩸🩸🩸🩸 Any info on which BU will be affected? What is the % reduction? Dusserah celebration mood has gone completely.
The Phone Doesn't Break because it has a Gorilla Glass Victus 2© screen, and its powered by a Qualcomm™ SM8850-1-AD Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (3 nm)..
The iPhone 18 Pro Max uses a Qualcomm modem in the U.S. The iPhone 18 Pro Max sold in the rest of the world gets Apple's C2 modem, the reason remains unclear..
Robot powered by Qualcomm’s new AI chip dies mid-presentation.
Qualcomm robot collapses during a live presentation demonstrating its new AI chip.. At least they tucked it in!
Also after firmware update, the official ubuntu prebuilt image is not usable anymore, hdmi audio is broken, i only see dummy audio as output, even the audio fix doesnt help much, already reported
Qualcomm? No thanks. They don't support their chips for long. they just refuse to release drivers for newer kernels.
Q6A is nice but it's a pure cell phone chip, it's missing a whole lot of IO you would get on even just an Rpi5. Still trying to like Qualcomm SOCs on Linux cuz the Adreno should be alot less headache than the Mali's on Rockchip but they hav…
Got mine last month, so far so good except for a couple quirks (mostly AI/DSP stack and HDMI, they literally converted from eDP to HDMI internally... Would be better if they just left eDP/DP alone tbh)
with the SoC. So this SoC is the Qualcomm
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Frequently asked
What companies has Qualcomm invested in?
Qualcomm has invested in Lumilens, Horizon3.ai, SenseTime, Classiq, Weka and 9 more.
SEC filings, insider activity, nonprofit links and pay benchmarks for Qualcomm:

