# Deutsche Telekom

> Deutsche Telekom is a VC fund backing Telecommunications. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Germany
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/telekom
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/deutschetelekom
- Website: http://www.telekom.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deutschetelekom

Deutsche Telekom is a telecommunications company that offers a range of fixed-network services, such as voice and data communication services based on fixed-network and broadband technology; and sells terminal equipment and other hardware as well as services to resellers. They are also offering their customers products and services related toconnected life and work. Deutsche Telekom was founded in 1995 and is based in Bonn, Germany.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Telecommunications | 8 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 21% |
| Software | 6 | 18% |
| Internet | 5 | 15% |
| Mobile | 4 | 12% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 15% |
| Series B | 5 | 15% |
| Series C | 5 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 12% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 50% |
| Germany | 6 | 18% |
| Israel | 2 | 6% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Greece | 1 | 3% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Klaus Juergen Krath | SVP, Engineering Services | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klaus-juergen-krath |
| Marion Schick | Chief Human Resources Officer & Labor Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marion-schick |
| Niek Damme | Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niek-jan-van-damme |
| Thomas Henze | Head of Mobile Access | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-henze |
| Thomas Tschersich | Chief Security Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-tschersich |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OTE Group of Companies | OTE Group is the technology company.They offers the full range of telecommunications services: from fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband services, to pay television and integrated ICT solutions. In addition to its core telecommunications activities, the Group in Greece is also involved in maritime communications, real-estate and professionaltraining. Abroad, the Group operates in the telecommunications market of Romania, where it offers fixed-line and mobile communications, as well as television services. | $70.6M | Post-IPO Debt | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| 1NCE | 1NCE is a provider of an IoT software and connectivity platform for connected products to customers managing various devices across different countries. Its platform enables customers to collect device data and turn it into actionable intelligence and accelerates time-to-market for data collection projects, increasing device lifetime, and allowingefficient management of sensors from initial deployment to the end of the product lifecycle. | $60M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| ElevenLabs | Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. | $180M | Series C | Jan 24, 2025 |  |
| Marvel Fusion | Marvel Fusion is a developer of fusion energy technology used to offer environment-friendly and safe energy. Its reactor is based on the short pulse, high energy, and electrically efficient laser that is suited for commercializing baseload fusion electrical power helping consumers to access clean, safe, and reliable energy sources.The company wasfounded in 2019 and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern. | $69.9M | Series B | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Bondio | In a world where connectivity is key, Bondio offers uninterrupted access to 5G/4G and IoT services worldwide. Our infrastructure and partnerships with the world's leading carriers mean you can bid farewell to outages and embrace stronger, more reliable, and cost-effective connections. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| DeepSkill | DeepSkill is a tech-driven agency & platform that enables every employee to profit from tailored coaching-programs for the first time with the help of a modular coaching system and intelligent algorithms. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Teridion | Teridion is a superior cloud-based global connectivity platform. Teridion's network has over 500 points of presence worldwide and works with over 25 public clouds to ensure a stable, high performance connectivity anywhere (including mainland China!). The WAN as a service solution works with any edge device and is easy to scale and set up, withno hardware or software required. Teridion's solutions fit global enterprises and SaaS companies. Its interoperability makes it the perfect solution to integrate with additional backend solutions, as well as security ones. Teridion handles middle-mile issues (core network issues) to ensures that routes are always performing at maximum optimization, bringing you up to 20X more throughput versus public Internet. | $25M | Corporate Round | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Everphone | Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones,tablets, accessories, and laptops. | $31.8M | Series C | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Ponto | Ponto provides regulated payment services for global enterprises to offer financial services to their customers. The company manages and eliminates the risks involved with offering financial services worldwide. This way, new products can deliver on the promise of improving and democratizing access to the economy for everyone. | $20M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| GoStudent | GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global. | $341M | Series D | Jan 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t-venture) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DTCP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dtcp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SoftBank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softbank) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [T.Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/t-capital-b6c0) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Deutsche Telekom invest in?

Deutsche Telekom invests primarily in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Deutsche Telekom?

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### Who are the partners at Deutsche Telekom?

The team at Deutsche Telekom includes Klaus Juergen Krath (SVP, Engineering Services), Marion Schick (Chief Human Resources Officer & Labor Director) and Niek Damme (Managing Director), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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