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- Cloud computing firm RightScale rakes in USD13m
- Santa Barbara-based cloud computing firm RightScale has raised USD13m in Series B funding from Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital, which led the firm’s USD4.5m Series A round in April. Founded in 2007, RightScale provides cloud computing management systems to help...
- Articles 2008-12-09
- LoveFilm considers takeover offers
- LoveFilm, the online DVD rental firm that is part-owned by Amazon, is reportedly considering takeover offers from a number of private equity firms including KKR and Silver Lake Partners. The company is reportedly being valued at GBP200m (USD325m) and is considering options that include selling a majority share of...
- Articles 2009-06-14
- eBay sells majority Skype stake for USD1.9bn
- eBay is selling a 65% majority stake in internet call service Skype for USD1.9bn in a deal that values the firm at USD2.75bn. A consortium of investors led by technology-focused investment firm Silver Lake is buying the shares. eBay is retaining a 35% stake in the firm. ...
- Articles 2009-08-31
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- EBay, Skype Settle IP Suits With Joltid, Sans Index Ventures
- eBay Nov. 6 settled lawsuits with Joltid Limited and Joost N.V. in a $1.9 billion deal that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid and paves the way for a group of investors to acquire the majority of the company. Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennstr?m and...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Skype Cofounders Will Be Part Of Buyout Group; Index Ventures Is Out
- A settlement has been reached that should wipe the slate on all of the litigation involving Skype and its founders, paving the way for the unit to be spun out of eBay (NSDQ: EBAY)—and also will wipe Index Ventures out of the picture, paidContent has confirmed. Reports of a...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Trolltech Secures $6.7 Million in Series B Investment Led by Index Ventures; Index's Neil Rimer Joins Trolltech's Board of Directors
- OSLO, Norway -- TrolltechR, provider of leading technologies for Linux and cross-platform software development, today announced the completion of a $6.7 million Series B round of financing led by Index Ventures. Existing investors Teknoinvest and Northzone Ventures also participated in this round. The funding will be used to fuel Trolltech's...
- Research articles 2005-05-23
- Video Island secures GBP6 million ($10.7m) Series B funding round; Cazenove Private Equity joins Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 June 2004-Video Island: Video Island secures GBP6 million ($10.7m) Series B funding round; Cazenove Private Equity joins Benchmark Capital and Index VenturesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06102004 London, U.K - Online DVD rental company, Video Island, today announced the closing...
- Research articles 2004-06-10
- BOKU Receives $13M Funding From Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures
- BOKU, Inc. today announced it has raised $13 million in venture capital investment led by Benchmark Capital, with participation from Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. The company is offering a new payments service for global consumers who make online purchases of digital and virtual goods with...
- Research articles 2009-06-16
- Index Ventures Joins Kleiner Perkins and Charles River in RPX Series B
- Fourteen Top Tech Brands Are Now Members in 8-Month-Old Defensive Patent Aggregation Service Created To Reduce Patent Assertion and Litigation Costs ...
- Research articles 2009-07-23
- webfair AG Secures Over $12 Million In Second Round Of Venture Financing Led By Index Ventures
- Business Editors MUNICH, Germany--BUSINESS WIRE--April 19, 2000 webfair, a leading supplier of online business community and partner relationship management solutions, today announced that it has received over $12 million in a second round of venture financing. webfair will use the funding to expand its product...
- Research articles 2000-04-19
- Interview: Index Venture's Danny Rimer On New Skype Investment
- It only looks like deja vu all over again for Index Ventures, the early backer of Skype that is now part of the investor group buying 65 percent of the company from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) for $1.9 billion in cash. This time Index Ventures is investing in a profitable...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Innovative Silicon Secures $16M in Series B Funding; Austin Ventures Leads Financing Round and Joins Highland Capital Partners, Index Ventures and Auriga Partners in Backing the Developer Of Z-RAM Embedded Memory Technology
- SANTA CLARA, Calif. & LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Innovative Silicon Inc. ISi developer of the Z-RAMTM Zero capacitor DRAM embedded memory technology announced today that Austin Ventures has joined with existing investors to lead a $16M Series B round of investment in the company. ISi will use the financing to expand...
- Research articles 2005-06-27
- Skype Founders' New Court Filings Include 'Smoking Gun' E-Mails From Ex Joost CEO
- [With Staci D. Kramer] For weeks, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis have claimed in legal filings and through representatives to have evidence that former Joost CEO Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi put together an investment group to acquire the virtual phone company by promising access to a technology workaround....
- External links 2009-10-15
- Industry Moves: Volpi Out As Joost Chairman
- Mike Volpi kept the role of chairman when Joost switched to a white-label tech provider and he left as CEO for Index Ventures, an investor in the video startup. That’s over, too. Volpi told paidContent, following a report on SAI that he was out as chairman, “I will confirm...
- External links 2009-09-11
- Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works?
- The ongoing legal scuffle between Skype, a division of eBay, and its founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom may soon see a resolution, according to someone familiar with the situation. The various parties are in discussions to resolve the various issues. The talks are described to be at sensitive stage...
- News items 2009-11-03
- My Thoughts on the Skype Settlement: Winners & Losers Scorecard
- The final results are in: eBay and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners have struck a deal with Skype founders and JoltID, the technology company controlled by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. They are also transferring the ownership of intellectual property needed to make sure that Skype...
- News items 2009-11-06
- Skype Squabbles Continue in Sale Process
- WILMINGTON, Del., Oct 14 (Reuters) - Skype's founders asked a U.S. federal court to prevent Index Ventures and one of its partners from further participating in the proposed $1.9 billion acquisition of the Web phone service, according to a court filing on Wednesday. The suit, brought by Joltid, the new...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Further Details Emerge As Skype & Its Founders Close to Settlement
- There is a good likelihood that Skype; its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis; and a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal disputes, allowing eBay to sell 65 percent of Skype for about $2 billion. I had first reported the...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Skype Founders Get Personal; Sue Former Joost CEO Volpi Over Trade Secrets
- Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the founders of a P2P maze of Skype, Joost and other startups based on code owned by their company Joltid, are now suing one of their own former execs. Wednesday, Michaelangelo “Mike” Volpi was the only individual included in Joltid’s copyright infringement suit against...
- External links 2009-09-18
- Dueling Skype Sides Hire Big Communications Guns [BoomTown]
- Perhaps the sides in the ever-escalating war over the Skype deal will work out their differences and settle–which is what should and probably will eventually happen, after everyone realizes how stupid all this noisy legal wrangling over the Internet telephony giant is. But that day is decidedly not today, given...
- News items 2009-10-15
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