Intel Capital

Intel Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Intel and makes equity investments in innovative technology companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting artificial intelligence, autonomous technology, data center and cloud, 5G, next-generation compute, and a wide range of other technology based companies. Intel Capital curates thousands of business development introductions each year between its portfolio companies and the Global 2000. The firm was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Intel Capital, as a division of Intel Corporation, is set up to manage corporate venture capital, global investment, mergers and acquisitions. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested in 1,582 companies and with 692 portfolio companies having gone public or participating in a merger. The firm has invested USD $12.9 billion.

Investment

Intel Capital's investments include LISNR, Untether AI, Duality Technologies, Healx, IOTAS, DustPhotonics, DataRobot, Mech-Mind and VeriSIM Life.

Their exited investments include Animoca Brands, Cloudera, Schoology, MongoDB, IndiaMART, Pixeom, Pacific Biosciences, Razer, Caring.com, Kabam, Nexmo, BlackDuck, CareDx and Gigya.

Timeline

July 23, 2021

Fabric8Labs landed $19.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Intel Capital and existing investors including Mark Cuban.

July 20, 2021

Intel-backed Untether AI raises $125 million, adds CPPIB and Tracker Capital as investors.

March 11, 2021

Intel Capital, JVP leads $32 million round in gamification firm Centrical.

February 18, 2021

Intel names Anthony Lin its permanent chief of Intel Capital.

July 3, 2020

Wendell Brooks resigned as president of Intel Capital.

2020

Just this year, under Brooks's leadership, the company has invested $225 million so far, including eleven new investments and twenty-six investments in companies already in the portfolio.

June 12, 2019

Intel Capital hosts 7th Annual CISCO Summit.

April 1, 2019

Intel Capital invests $117 million in fourteen new startups.

February 20, 2019

Intel Capital is crowned as the most active CVC in cybersecurity.

February 4, 2018

Intel Capital invests more than $30 million in three startups to accelerate growth of the cloud.

People

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Documentaries, videos and podcasts

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Companies

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Cloudpick Limite

Shanghai, China

Landing AI

Palo Alto, CA

Medical Informatics

Houston, TX

Mighty Networks

Palo Alto, CA

OnScale

Cupertino, CA

Pixeon

Santa Clara, CA

Polystream

Guildford, UK

proteanTecs

Haifa, Israel

Qolibri

Roseville, CA

Reveal Biosciences

San Diego, CA

SambaNova Systems

Palo Alto, CA

Tibit Communications

Petaluma, CA

Untether AI

Toronto, Canada

Zhuhai EEasy Tehcnology

Zhuhai, China

AI system-on-chip design

News

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How Xiaomi Redefined What It Means to Be a Platform

Tony W. Tong

September 9, 2021

Harvard Business Review

Three factors enabled the electronics giant's unique business model.

SAM Seamless Network Raises $20M Series B Funding to Lead IoT Security for 5G Networks

SAM Seamless Network

May 27, 2021

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- SAM Seamless Network, a network security company for consumers and SMBs, today announced it has raised $20M in Series B funding to accelerate...

Caresyntax Raises $100 Million to Make Surgery Smarter and Safer

Caresyntax

April 28, 2021

www.prnewswire.com:443

/PRNewswire/ -- Caresyntax, the leading enterprise-level digital surgery platform delivering actionable insights to make surgery smarter and safer, today...

SambaNova raises $676M at a $5.1B valuation to double down on cloud-based AI software for enterprises

Ingrid Lunden

April 13, 2021

TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence technology holds a huge amount of promise for enterprises -- as a tool to process and understand their data more efficiently; as a way to leapfrog into new kinds of services and products; and as a critical stepping stone into whatever the future might hold for their businesses. But the problem for many [...]

Term Sheet — Tuesday March 16, 2021

March 16, 2021

Announcing the Early Stage Pitch-Off Judges

Neesha A. Tambe

March 4, 2021

TechCrunch

TechCrunch Early Stage is coming around the corner fast, April 1 & 2nd. And you still have a chance to pitch your startup on the famous TC stage to an amazing line up of judges. On April 2nd, TechCrunch will feature ten top startups across the globe at the Early Stage Pitch Off. Companies will [...]

Term Sheet — Friday February 19, 2021

February 19, 2021

Anthony Lin named permanent managing director and head of Intel Capital

Ron Miller

February 18, 2021

TechCrunch

When Wendell Brooks stepped down as managing partner and head of Intel Capital last August, Anthony Lin was named to replace him on an interim basis. At the time, it wasn't clear if he would be given the role permanently, but today, six months later, the answer is known. In a letter to the firm's [...]

46 enterprise tech startups to bet your career on in 2021

Rosalie Chan, Melia Russell, Jeff Elder and Ashley Stewart

February 13, 2021

Business Insider

If there's one industry you can bet on during an economic downturn, it's enterprise tech. These are the startups where we think you should work.

Metalenz Launches with $10M from 3M, Applied Ventures, Intel Capital, M Ventures, and TDK to Power the Next Generation of Smartphone Sensors

February 4, 2021

WebWire

Metalenz, the first company to commercialize meta-optics, today officially launched out of stealth and announced it has raised $10 million from 3M Ventures, Applied Ventures LLC, Intel Capital, M Ventures and TDK Ventures, along with Tsingyuan Ventures and Braemar Energy Ventures. The new investment allows Metalenz to scale production and accelerate the development of miniature optics on a chip technology and its radically new lens that will power the next generation of sensors for use in...

Cellwize raises $32M to help carriers and their partners adopt and run 5G services

Ingrid Lunden

November 9, 2020

TechCrunch

As 5G slowly moves from being a theoretical to an active part of the coverage map for the mobile industry -- if not for consumers themselves -- companies that are helping carriers make the migration less painful and less costly are seeing a boost of attention. In the latest development, Cellwize, a startup that's built [...]

Cellwize raises $32M to help carriers and their partners adopt and run 5G services

Ingrid Lunden

November 9, 2020

TechCrunch

Ayar raises $35M for optical interconnect tech to overcome computing bottlenecks in the CPU

Ingrid Lunden

November 5, 2020

TechCrunch

The race is on to build more efficient chip technology for faster and less power-intensive computing, and today an innovative startup that's built one solution based on in-package optical interconnect (optical I/O) technology is announcing a round of growth funding from a number of strategic investors that speaks to how its approach is getting traction. [...]

Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital

Ron Miller

August 7, 2020

TechCrunch

When Wendell Brooks was promoted to president of Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chip giant, in 2015, he knew he had big shoes to fill. He was taking over from Arvind Sodhani, who had run the investment component for 28 years since its inception. Today, the company confirmed reports that Brooks has resigned [...]

TileDB raises $15M Series A to build 'universal data engine'

Rowan Walrath

July 14, 2020

AmericanInno

The startup, headquartered in Cambridge, aims to simplify data management across industries.

Intel Capital picks up 0.39% stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 1894.50 cr

Aneesh Phadnis & Ram Prasad Sahu

July 3, 2020

@bsindia

The latest fund raising news comes on the back of RILs announcement that it has turned net debt free ahead of its March 2021 deadline

RIL net debt to dip with rights issue, Jio stake sale: Morgan Stanley

IANS

July 3, 2020

@bsindia

Reliance Industries announced today an investment of $252 million by Intel Capital for a 0.39 per cent stake in Jio Platforms

RIL gains 1% as Intel Capital to invest Rs 1,894 crore in Jio Platforms

SI Reporter

July 3, 2020

@bsindia

This will be the twelfth international deal for Reliances digital arm in less than three months, taking the total investment amount to Rs 117,588.45 crore.

Intel Capital invests Rs 1,894 crore for a 0.30% stake in Jio Platforms

BS Web Team

July 3, 2020

@bsindia

This will be the twelfth big ticket investment in the firm in less than three months

Intel Capital-Backed Lilt Raises $25M Series B To Expand AI-Powered Translation...

Christine Hall

May 12, 2020

Crunchbase News

Lilt's advanced translation technology uses AI and automation to make every step of the translation process faster, better and simpler.