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November 15, 2007
Puzzler Winner - Italian Contacts
The answer to the question:
Name one of the two venture capital firms that backed MutuiOnline, the Italian online mortage broker that went public this year on the Milan stock exchange, at a mkt cap of about €245M, delivering a 20 times money return to early investors.
was Net Partners (now 360 Capital Partners) and Jupiter Venture.
Thanks from the alarm:clock euro to the other readers who participated in the Puzzler. This week's winner is Atlas Venture's Max Niederhofer who was the first to write in with the correct answer. Unfortunately, we do not have a second winner as there were not 13 correct answers.
It was a matter of recall for Niederhofer as he had met Fausto Boni not too long ago at a Northzone Ventures private event. Boni is a co-founder Net Partners and now 360 Capital Partners.
Recruited earlier this year by Atlas Venture, Niederhofer was a co-founder and COO of myblog.de, the German weblogging community. He said he also founded IncrediblInc, an enterprise software developer.
One of his business angel investments prior to Atlas was Last.fm, the music recommendation site that was acquired by CBS, a good investment, he told us. But he also admits to selling GOOG at $400.
An avid PC gamer, this VC professional knows from overclocking. That interest and his past experience inform his area of work at Atlas, online and software investments in Europe, focus on Germany. He has a blog on tech, innovation, and VC in Europe.
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