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File Sharing - Tuesday, August 2, 2005

PeerMe - Profile

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HQ: Mountain View, CA & Tokyo, Japan

Founded: 2004

Management: Tom Lasater is PeerMe's founder and CEO and Kanji Sakae is co-founder and President. They appear to be a couple of nobodies.

Investors: PeerMe raised $1.5M in July 2005 from Angels. The total angel investment in PeerMe is more than $2.5M.

Business Model: The company has developed an instant messaging platform that supports VoIP and PC to handheld voice communications and file transfer. The beta is due to be released in August 2005.

Competitors: Skype

Dirt: We'll dispatch PeerMe with due brevity. Nobody wants a competitor to Skype that is not as good and lacks resources to catch up. Beat it PeerMe.

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