Deutsche Telekom believes that the decision to restructure its venture capital unit will give it the opportunity to focus on business start-ups developing technologies beneficial to the company.
Deutsche Telekom has announced plans to restructure its venture capital business unit T-Venture. T-Venture will be split into four different funds each linked to four of Deutsche Telekom's subsidiaries. The four funds will be linked with T-Mobile, T-Online, T-Systems and T-Com as Deutsche Telekom seeks to achieve more technology synergies to counteract the fall in venture capital investment returns.
Deutsche Telekom believes that the decision to restructure its venture capital unit will give it the opportunity to focus on business start-ups developing technologies beneficial to the company.