# Ericsson Ventures

> Ericsson Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Clara, United States
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ericsson/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Ericsson
- Website: http://www.ericsson.com/ventures
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ericsson/

Ericsson Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in innovative companies. It specializes in the fields of finance, financial services, and venture capital It was founded in 1876 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 38% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 20% |
| Cloud Computing | 7 | 18% |
| Machine Learning | 5 | 13% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 13% |

75 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 10 | 25% |
| Series B | 8 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 6 | 15% |
| Series A | 5 | 13% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 70% |
| Sweden | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Graham Ackerman | VP Strategic Development, Director of Investment Management | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graham-ackerman |
| Paul McNamara | Vice President, Corporate Development | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-mcnamara-39e6 |
| Albert Kim | Head of Ericsson Ventures & Vice President | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-kim-2fad |
| Asif Giga | Investor Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asif-giga |
| Daniel Parkes | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-parkes |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fabric8Labs | Fabric8Labs developed a unique process that is an intuitive combination of two mature technologies: Stereo-Lithography and Electro-Deposition. | $56M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Launchpad.build | Launchpad is developing technology that will allow products to be delivered in days rather than months. The company is creating a user-friendly system of advanced software and autonomous hardware that will allow for a streamlined AI-driven digital thread from product CAD to actual product assembly. Launchpad's digitool is a networkedautomation solution that can perform a wide range of assembly tasks, such as pick and place, fastening, dispensing, and more, using only a product CAD file. The company's mission to enable manufacturing's future by increasing automation and improving utilization | $8.5M | Series A | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| Hydrolix | Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data.Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-secondinteractive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services. | $80M | Series C | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| UJET | UJET is the world’s first and only cloud contact center platform for smartphone era CX. By modernizing digital and in-app experiences, UJET unifies the enterprise brand experience across sales, marketing, and support, eliminating the frustration of channel switching between voice, digital, and self-service for consumers. Offering unsurpassedresiliency and the flexibility to deploy across leading public cloud infrastructures, UJET powers the world’s largest elastic CCaaS tenant at up to 22,000 agents globally and is trusted by innovative, customer-centric enterprises like Instacart, Turo, Wag!, and Atom Tickets to intelligently orchestrate predictive, contextual, conversational customer experiences. | $76M | Series D | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Nubis Communications | Nubis Communications is a cloud startup company providing services to the electrical and electronic manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York City Metropolitan Area. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| d-Matrix | D-Matrix is developing a platform that enables data centers to handle large-scale generative AI inference with high throughput and low latency. The company’s offering includes the Corsair™ inference accelerator card, the JetStream™ I/O networking accelerator, and the SquadRack™ rack-scale system, all designed to work together to deliverefficient inference compute. Their technology brings memory and compute closer together, embedding processing inside memory to reduce data movement, improve speed, and energy efficiency. The stack also includes software tools for deployment, model debugging, and performance monitoring, enabling enterprises to scale inference workloads across models and usage scenarios. | $110M | Series B | Sep 06, 2023 |  |
| Hydrolix | Hydrolix is an early-stage startup with an ambition to change the economics of high density data. The company develops a query service technology intended to process petabyte-scale time series data.Hydrolix's cloud-based query service utilizes proprietary compression and indexing technology, allowing customers to process sub-secondinteractive queries at a fraction of the cost of other existing services. | $20M | Series A | Jun 05, 2023 |  |
| HeadSpin | HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences. Its platform utilizes automation, AI, and analytics to unify end-to-end testing, performance optimization, and experience monitoring with thousands of devices deployed in 100+ locations on the real carrier and WiFi networks around theglobe that enable development, QA, operations, and product teams to remotely test and monitor mobile applications and increase revenue. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Hiya | Hiya is a developer of a caller identification application designed to offer a better phone experience to mobile users worldwide. The company's services identify unknown numbers and automatically blocks scam and spam threats across the globe, enabling users to stay protected and block unwanted calls.Hiya brings trust and identity into themobile call by making the calling experience secure and engaging on every smartphone globally. With a mission to provide a better phone experience, Hiya’s products and services provide users with the context needed to help them decide whether or not to pick up their phone. Through analysis of more than 13 billion calls per month, Hiya protects over 100 million users from unwanted scam and nuisance calls globally. Hiya is available as a consumer app on Google Android and iPhone and is integrated into the phone experience for AT&T Call Protect, T-Mobile Name ID, and Samsung Galaxy, A-Series, and J-Series users worldwide. | $4.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 27, 2023 |  |
| Hadean | Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE. | $4.9M | Series A | Mar 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ericsson Ventures invest in?

Ericsson Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 40 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 Ericsson Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Ericsson Ventures?

The team at Ericsson Ventures includes Graham Ackerman (VP Strategic Development, Director of Investment Management), Paul McNamara (Vice President, Corporate Development) and Albert Kim (Head of Ericsson Ventures & Vice President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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