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Skype

Founders Jaan Tallinn Janus Friis Niklas Zennstru00f6m

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Total investments 3
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 3
Rounds per year 0.17
Lead investments 0
Exits 3
Key employees 2

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Music
  • Digital Entertainment
  • E-Commerce
Summary

In 2003 was created Skype, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The company was established in Europe in Luxembourg. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Esch-sur-alzette.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Digital Entertainment, Advertising. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TrialPay, Fon, Rdio. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

The current fund was established by Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis, Niklas Zennstru00f6m.

This Skype works on 38 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2015. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Index Ventures, Google, Sequoia Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Atomico, Google.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rdio

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
Music
14 Oct 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

TrialPay

Advertising
E-Commerce
Internet
Payments
$3M20 Feb 2007 Mountain View, California, United States

Fon

Information Technology
Internet
Wireless
$21M06 Feb 2006 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

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Total investments 3
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 0.17
Peak activity year 2009
Lead investments 0
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 1.00

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Rdio

Digital Entertainment
Media and Entertainment
Music
14 Oct 2009 San Francisco, California, United States

TrialPay

Advertising
E-Commerce
Internet
Payments
$3M20 Feb 2007 Mountain View, California, United States

Fon

Information Technology
Internet
Wireless
$21M06 Feb 2006 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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