eBuddy, a web chat application that actually was around long before the similar high-flying Silicon Valley startup Meebo, raised €6.5 million in a Series B round of funding today. The investment was led by Prime Technology Ventures. The company had previously raised €5 million.
eBuddy and Meebo are roughly equivalent according to worldwide Comscore numbers (4.8 million unique visitors for Meebo in December 2007, 4.5 million for eBuddy). Ebuddy says their internal stats actually show 12 million monthly uniques, with 1.5 million new users being added monthly.
eBuddy users can log into AOL, Google Talk, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo Messenger from their website, without the need to download any additional software. The company was originally called eMessenger, but relaunched as eBuddy in June 2006.
Congratulations eBuddy!
Cool! Congrats JJ and Onno!
Nice work.
Well Done! keep at it!
Goed nieuws Jan Joost & Onno! Super!
why has http://www.apple.com been down for like 4 hours?
Great! Do they already monetize the service?
Nice to see some competition getting funding in this space. I’m still wondering where Trillian (which from my knowledge is the oldest contender in interoperable IM platforms) is going to come out in this.
hiyaaa i think it isnice to in stead of msn
Now I’m even happier to have JJ Rueb (CEO of eBuddy) as a confirmed speaker for Plugg
Te gek Jan Joost & Onno !!
Goodluck … And may you guys spend the money well
What makes eBuddy convenient for me is that they offer a downloadable mobile client at least for Symbian-based phones. Web-based software is ok for most occasions, but for IM I prefer standalone program that can stay in the background and notify me when there’re new messages.
we managed to sneak our way into the eBuddy offices this morning in search of their money. We did find SOME money AND Onno Bakker (co-Founder). He told us a little bit about the investment and how they celebrated and how that felt the next day:
http://thenextw...e-ebuddy-heist/
Congrats guys! It ain’t much if it ain’t Dutch!
yes i completely agree with you there, log on 2 da myspace. http://www.myspace.com/mcjawz