Profile of North American Telecom Investors

The telecommunications sectors are going through robust growth this year due to rollouts of new services and devices that have been a key-driving factor for new companies to enter this industry or to initiate expansions through acquisitions. 

Here are some active telecommunications venture capital & private equity firms based in North America.

ABRY Partners LLC

Based in Boston, ABRY Partners is a specialized private equity firm that invests in media & telecommunications. 

The private equity firm has invested in more than 450 media investments, from newspaper companies to broadband providers. 

Its portfolio includes Muzak, Atlantic Broadband, Charleston Newspapers, Country Road Communications, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 

Operations include leveraged buyouts, expansions, acquisitions, and recapitalizations. 

The company usually invests $20 million to $150 million in equity transactions, or $15 million to $50 million in mezzanine capital. 

Typically, ABRY Partners invests in companies that has regional dominance or looking for funds to complete acquisitions and expansions. 

Dominion Ventures, Inc.

Dominion Ventures, Inc. is a principal investment firm specializing in investments in early stage, emerging, and mature companies. 

It typically invests in technology companies, which include communications, software, and services. 

The firm primarily invests in companies based in United States. It initially invests around $2 million to $4 million but the total investment size ranges between $3 million and $10 million distributed over several rounds of financing.

Communications software is a hot sector being invested in venture capital firms at moment, including mobile billing systems, security systems, new entertainment applications or cloud based business applications.

Accel Partners

Founded in 1983, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies including: Actuate, AdMob, Alfresco, AMCC, Arrowpoint, Baidu, BBN, Brightcove, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Focus Media, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, Glam Media, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven and many more. The firm is based in Palo Alto, Beijing, London and Japan.

Accel Partners is a household name in the private equity; its involvements in the telecommunications can be reflected from the list above. 

Apart from Internet, communications services and applications, it is also worth noting it had been quite active in infrastructure as well, such as new networks or new ISP services companies. 

Telus Ventures 

TELUS, the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and second largest in Canada. TELUS Ventures is the attached investment arm to TELUS, in addition to the TELUS Ventures; TELUS also has its own innovation R&D centres and programs to support new innovations. 

Its portfolio are most related to telecommunications related companies, including: ClairMail, which offers mobile banking and payments applications that utilize a phone's existing messaging system, Jamcracker, which provides Unified Cloud Services Delivery Platform, and has customers including TELUS and CA. It also invests in billing systems, security systems also other telecommunications services providers. 

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