Vodafone bets on Cohere’s open RAN tech in venturing return
Exclusive: Vodafone Ventures sputters back to life with in-the-works equity investment in open RAN collaborator Cohere Technologies, joining fellow telco investors Bell and Telstra in betting on the Californian vendor’s Universal Spectrum Multiplier tech…
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- Themes: 5G/6G testing; Convertible promissory notes; Equity investment; Funding rounds; Lab testing; Open RAN development; Portfolio management; RAN intelligent controller (RIC); Spectrum efficiency; Venture capital strategy.
- People: Art King; Francisco Martín Pignatelli; Johan Wibergh.
- Geographic: Canada; Spain; United Kingdom; United States.
- Organisations: AST SpaceMobile; Bell Ventures; Cohere Technologies; Headwater Research; Intel Capital; Juniper Networks; Koch Investments Group; Lightspeed Venture Partners; Mimik Technology; NEA (New Enterprise Associates); OBS Medical; Skorpios Technologies; Telstra; Titanium Ventures; VisionOSS; Vodafone Group; Vodafone Ventures; VMware.
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