Portfolio 33
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| - | ELOQUII | eloquii.com | $21M | United Sta... |
| - | Ya.com | ya.com | - | Spain, Com... |
| - | SmartThing... | smartthings.com | $16.7M | United Sta... |
| - | 23andMe | 23andme.com | $2.75B | United Sta... |
| - | DineroMail | dineromail.com | - | - |
| - | Motiv | mymotiv.com | - | - |
| - | Aura Biosc... | aurabiosciences.com | $183M | United Sta... |
| - | Tumblr (re... | tumblr.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | Red Karaok... | redkaraoke.com | - | Spain, Com... |
| - | Hipertextu... | hipertextual.com | - | Spain, Com... |
Show more
Mentions in press and media 23
| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.02.2012 | Crowdsourced Wi-Fi Network Fon Passes 5 Million Hotspots Worldwide | When serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavky launched Fon in late 2005, his goal was to blanket the world with easily-accessible, crowdsourced Wi-Fi. While the service hasn’t quite made it everywhere yet, Fon has just announced that they now ha... |
| 09.12.2010 | If Assange Were In China, US Politicians Would Be Cheering Him On | We’ve pointed out the general hypocrisy of US politicians calling for an end to internet censorship, while threatening Wikileaks at the same time. If you want to see some real irony, check out the fact that Senator Joe Lieberman, who has be... |
| 04.10.2010 | Fon Reaches 2.5M Hotspots Worldwide, Says Rise Of Smartphones Saved Them | Fon, the company with a fairly simple but extremely bold and tough mission (to cover the entire globe with free Wi-Fi), now boasts over 2.5 million hotspots located around the planet. In a brief blog post, entrepreneur, teacher and philanth... |
| 04.08.2010 | Tuenti looks like it will go to Telefonica for $99 million | Back in May we reported a rumor that Telefonica was in talks to acquire Tuenti, the ‘Spanish Facebook’, for €80 million” ($104 million). At least that was the buzz around the Spanish blogosphere. Tuenti vehemently denied it at the time but ... |
| 10.12.2009 | Fon To Distribute Peek In Europe For €99 A Pop | Simple communication gadget Peek is making its way to Europe, courtesy of Spain-based Fon, whose founder and CEO Martin Varsavsky is making the announcement later today at the Le Web conference here in Paris. Prior to his stage appearance, ... |
| 10.12.2009 | Peek Email Device May Find Life In Europe: The PeekFON | The U.S. press hasn’t been particularly kind to the Peek email device. It isn’t that it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do – email. The issue is more that people already have their phones to do this, and those phones can also deal with ima... |
| 28.09.2009 | Dopplr confirms being acquired by Nokia, says nothing will change (for now) | So finally the official word is in, with a very short blog post by CEO Marko Ahtisaari: Dopplr has been acquired by Nokia. Update: Nokia’s press release Update 2: Dopplr angel investor Martin Varsavsky on the deal: ‘Nokia as a force of good... |
| 20.10.2008 | Is The Economic Crisis Affecting European Startups At All? | A lot has already been said and written about the current economic crisis, and how the financial meltdown is and will keep on affecting startups in the US. VC’s and angel investors are telling their portfolio companies to say goodbye to the... |
| 15.09.2008 | Dopplr: New Funding Round for Business Travel Network | Today, Dopplr, the social network for business travelers, announced that it has secured a second round of financing. The lead investor for this round is Ester Dyson. Other investors include Tom Glocer from Reuters, Joshua Schachter from del... |
| 07.08.2008 | A Secondary Market For Private Company Stock | The news that some Facebook employees are selling their stock privately naturally focuses on the price/valuation (a deep discount to the $15bn that Microsoft paid). First of all, a deep discount makes sense. Most privately held venture back... |
Show more