{"id":7292,"date":"2014-01-20T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:21:07","slug":"fon-closed-a-14-million-round-to-expand-its-wifi-community-even-further-and-to-develop-new-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7292","title":{"rendered":"Fon closed a $14 million round to expand its WiFi community even further and to develop new products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/corp.fon.com\/en\">Fon<\/a> has raised $14 million in its last financing round. It was particularly special as it was headed by the world&#8217;s leading chipset manufacturer, <a href=\"http:\/\/qca.qualcomm.com\/newspresslist\/atheros-communications-and-fon-collaboration-supports-expanding-worldwide-wi-fi-community\/\">Qualcomm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2014\/01\/qualcomm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7304\" alt=\"qualcomm\" src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2014\/01\/qualcomm-500x333.png\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2014\/01\/qualcomm-500x333.png 500w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2014\/01\/qualcomm-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2014\/01\/qualcomm.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s phenomenal \u00a0having\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0on the same board as\u00a0Index Ventures, Google, Coral, Atomico and Deutsche Telekom.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>What\u2019s more, this new relationship with\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0won\u2019t just be fundraising-based. They\u2019re actually helping us with the development of a brand new Fon router.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also, Fon will be integrated in\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0Atheros\u2019 chipsets, which means that more devices and systems will be automatically equipped to be part of Fon\u2019s global WiFi network.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of plans for 2014 after 2013, a \u00a0year in which Fon grew 50% and hit the milestone of 12 million WiFi hotspots.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=7292\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to announce that Fon has raised $14 million in its last financing round. It was particularly special as it was headed by the world&#8217;s leading chipset manufacturer, Qualcomm. It\u2019s phenomenal \u00a0having\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0on the same board as\u00a0Index Ventures, Google, Coral, Atomico and Deutsche Telekom. What\u2019s more, this new relationship with\u00a0Qualcomm\u00a0won\u2019t just be fundraising-based. They\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}