eBuddy secures Series B: 6.5 million euro from Prime Technology
Written on February 5, 2008 – 1:03 am
Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Fleck
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Co-founder Onno Bakker during lunch2.0
This just came in. Amsterdam web based IM service eBuddy secures a 6.5 million round of funding of Prime Technology ventures. The money will be used for further international expansion and growth for their mobile application (with already almost 2 million downloads).
While on the other side of the ocean people write and talk mainly about eBuddy’s competitor Meebo, eBuddy is still the biggest web-based IM company out there and with 6.5 million Euro in the pocket they will definitely try to get more presence and buzz in the US.
In October 2006 eBuddy got a capital injection of 5 million euro for Lowland capital. No details of both rounds are disclosed (yet).
Last week we had lunch2.0 at the eBuddy HQ and I must say that they’ve shown an impressive growth over the last years. Co-founder Onno Bakker told me that they were working on an API, but no news yet when they will release it. Congrats to the guys!
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4 Responses to “eBuddy secures Series B: 6.5 million euro from Prime Technology”
By ebuddy on Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
what about ebuddy?
By ebuddy on Apr 10, 2008 | Reply
what is the new in ebuddy?