Blog
Feb 13, 2026
2025 was a milestone year for Qualcomm Ventures as we celebrated our 25th anniversary and continued to drive innovations forward. We invested in 16 new companies in AI, data center, edge computing, robotics, and connected intelligence – advancing Qualcomm’s vision for enabling on-device intelligence that is immediate, personal, and secure. We also continued our support for existing portfolio companies, helping them scale their technologies and expand their reach. We celebrated many portfolio achievements, including the IPOs of Mountain Digital, Capillary Technologies and Unisound and the acquisition of Weights & Biases.
Over the past quarter-century, we’ve had the privilege of investing in more than 500 companies globally, deploying over $3B in capital, and supporting 60+ unicorns, including Waze, Ring, Fitbit, Cloudflare, SentinelOne, Xiaomi, Zoom, Scale AI, Anthropic and more.
We hosted QV25 to celebrate our anniversary and explore the next era of technology. AI continued to dominate the technology landscape in 2025, evolving into the new user interface – human-centric, adaptive, and real-time. Hybrid AI architecture combining cloud and edge computing became essential, enabling contextual intelligence at scale.
Our investments in AI focused on technologies that strengthen this foundation – from productivity platforms and workflow automation to consumer devices and AI infrastructure. We invested in leading startups in these areas:
The automotive sector accelerated toward a software-defined future, propelled by electrification, connectivity, and intelligence. Believing software-defined vehicles are key to safer, more personalized mobility, we invested in platforms enabling clean energy transportation and contactless service.
IoT continued its shift toward more human-centric experiences, embedding intelligence directly into everyday devices and environments. At the same time, the robotics stack continued to mature, from more capable edge inference and power-efficient silicon to standardized sensor modules and strengthened global manufacturing capacity. With hardware supply chains stabilizing and AI models improving dexterity and generalization, deployment risk is falling and ROI is becoming increasingly clear. We supported companies pioneering breakthroughs in robotics, and AI-enabled safety.
Enterprise technology pushed toward greater resilience and computational power, with autonomous security and quantum computing leading the charge. We invested in solutions redefining enterprise infrastructure and security.
As we enter 2026, our commitment to backing visionary founders remains at the heart of everything we do, enabling them to scale leveraging Qualcomm’s technology and global reach. Together, we’re advancing breakthroughs in on-device AI, edge computing, and technologies powering software-defined vehicles and industrial IoT.
We believe AI is the new UI, a paradigm where interfaces become intuitive, adaptive, and deeply personal. By combining the immediacy of the edge with the scale of the cloud, we’re building systems that understand context, nuance, and behavior, acting in real time to make technology truly human-centric. We’re excited to help shape that future.
