2007 13
Moneytrackin, Online Accounting For You And Me
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I am an investor in Moneytrackin. I blogged about this project when it was still just an idea. Now it’s online . The concept of Moneytrackin is simple: keeping track of expenses is best done online.
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At FON we are very proud of our growth. FON has tripled in size in the last 3 months. But while I thought this was pretty unique, I was just looking at Meneame, the Spanish Digg like site, in which I invested in, and I was super impressed with their growth. They doubled in size in the last 3 months. And other companies I invested in, like Netvibes, Wikio, Vpod, Xing, Gspace, Mo.neytrack.in, Technorati, Plazes, Zudeo and Joost are all growing very fast.how
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Tariq, a good friend of mine and member of the FON board in Europe, is the founder and CEO of Netvibes. Netvibes is a company in which I invested when it started and that has grown exponentially to around 10 million users.
In this video you can see Tariq presenting Netvibes new strategy, whereby modules will be made to look less and less like RSS feeds and more and more like “design” modules being so attractive in themselves, that you will even be allowed to “wear” them when you visit other sites such as Google.
2007 23
Pierre Chappaz Raises 4 Million Euros For Wikio
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Pierre Chappaz just sent me the press release that appears below with the good news that Wikio raised 4 million euros. As an investor in the first round, when Wikio was nothing more than a concept, I am happy to see that Wikio has grown to be the most popular European blog and media search engine in only a year.
This round follows the Series A round that came less than a year after my investment in Netvibes, the very successful internet start up page now used by around 10 million people founded by my good friend Tariq Krim, but now also co managed by Pierre Chappaz. Interestingly Pierre Chappaz is also the founder of Kelkoo, sold to Yahoo a few years ago. Pierre is one of the few people in Europe with a keen eye for what´s up and coming on the internet. First in e commerce with Kelkoo and now in content and information management with Netvibes and Wikio. Congratulations Pierre Chappaz and the whole Wikio team!
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2006 24
VPOD Investment
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I invested in vpod.tv. I asked Rodrigo Sepulveda, one of the two entrepreneurs behind vpod.tv, to send me a company description and this is what he sent me:
vpod.tv is an easy online video publishing and syndication platform for the web and mobile devices aiming at the global consumer market, enabling massive new user-generated content and personal customizable TV-channels. It brings a real convergence between fixed and mobile devices such as computer screens, TVs, mobile phones, and portable media players.
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2005 2
The stories behind my companies
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Urban Capital, Medicorp Sciences, Viatel, Jazztel, Einsteinet, Ya.com…
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