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February 4, 2008

eBuddy, The Meebo Of Europe, Raises €6.5 million

Michael Arrington

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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.

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  1. Pavel

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Congratulations eBuddy!

  2. Mathijs van Abbe

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    Cool! Congrats JJ and Onno!
    Nice work.

  3. Dorian

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Well Done! keep at it!

  4. Johan Schaap

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Goed nieuws Jan Joost & Onno! Super!

  5. Ryan

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    why has http://www.apple.com been down for like 4 hours?

  6. Yakov

    February 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    Great! Do they already monetize the service?

  7. andy754

    February 4th, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    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.

  8. Robin Wauters

    February 4th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    Now I’m even happier to have JJ Rueb (CEO of eBuddy) as a confirmed speaker for Plugg :)

  9. Gino Goossens

    February 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Te gek Jan Joost & Onno !!
    Goodluck … And may you guys spend the money well :-)

  10. Anthony Berkins

    February 4th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    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.

  11. Boris

    February 5th, 2008 at 4:22 am

    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://thenextweb.org/2008/02/.....ddy-heist/

  12. Jur vV

    February 5th, 2008 at 5:49 am

    Congrats guys! It ain’t much if it ain’t Dutch!

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