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March 07, 2006
Allpeers= Firefox-embedded P2P apps + undisclosed biz model
The a:c euro talked to CEO and co-founder Cedric Maloux today about Allpeers, whose product by the same name is a Firefox-embedded P2P client.
Allpeers was founded in 2003 by Maloux, who was VP of European Operations of PlanetOut previously, and Matthew Gertner, CTO, formerly CEO of Schemantix. The two have known each other since 1992, when they worked for a small and little known startup in Paris, Maloux told the a:c euro.
Allpeers CEO Cedric Maloux
The startup is currently marketing Allpeers as a file sharing and collaboration tool and it is being distributed at no cost. Maloux declined to disclose future revenue and business plans.
Co-founder, Gertner, has given pay-per-view and other Internet business models a lot of thought and digital ink in Peer Pressure, the corporate blog.
Gertner envisions Internet use being more and more centered in the browser, kind of counter to the current trend that sees users having to go to a portal like Yahoo, or several different websites for video downloading, calendars, news reading, voice calls and the like.
What is missing is micropayment, or transaction support in the Firefox browser. Ease of payment is still an issue, despite the availability of PayPal, Click&Buy, credit cards and the like.
It is one reason that investment in mobile content is considered a better bet by entrepreneurs and investors here. The opinion is not that of the a:c euro’s alone, it also came up in discussion at the BrainsToVentures investors’ conference in Zurich last Friday.
Maloux declined to comment on that topic.
Apparently the founder's pitch to VCs back in 2005 about his vision for the firm's P2P software fell on deaf ears until he met Index Ventures and Mangrove Capital. The financing was just closed a few days ago, said Maloux.
Read - Peer Pressure (corporate blog)
Posted on March 7, 2006 09:47 AM | Posted to Venture Capital | Web 2.0 | Permalink
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