Index Ventures —
Just under a year ago, I wrote about IPTV company, Joost, closing a susbtantial $45M round of VC funding led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures (I also wrote about them a month later) At that time, I was dubious that the timing of the venture was right, and because of that I was unclear [...]
You’ve probably seen the news already. Sun Microsystems is to acquire MySQL AB (the company behind the MySQL database) for $1B. I’d been expecting MySQL to IPO this year, so it came out of the blue to me. This looks like a potentially great outcome for everyone involved.
It certainly looks like a great outcome for [...]
Joost, the new peer to peer (P2P) television company has just completed a $45M round of financing, led by Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital. It’s a big round of financing, given that it’s so early on in the company’s life. Clearly, they want to get big, fast. It’s not surprising they got [...]
Ben Holmes of Index Ventures gave a presentation at the FOWA conference last week, entitled, “Everything You Need To Know About Venture Capital”. I highly recommend the slides to you (see below) - perhaps it’s not quite everything you need to know, but it’s a fabulous introduction. It’s great to see a European VC being [...]