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German/Swiss Location Startup Plazes Bought By Nokia

Nokia has bought Germany location-based Web 2.0 and mobile firm Plazes for an undisclosed amount. as our sister site the a:c euro reported, Plazes is a Swiss company that was founded in December 2005 with R&D is in Berlin....

Posted on June 24, 2008 4:59 AM

Nokia Splashes Out Big For Navteq - A Startup Opportunity?

Neuhaus Partners' Paul Jozefak has a post about the Nokia big-ticket acquisition of Navteq and sees an opportunity for startups and location based service providers. But it is a qualified opportunity. He recently posted his view on the challenges. Nokia...

Posted by vt on October 2, 2007 7:33 AM

Hot betas: MindMeister, Restorm.tv, and RapidObject

The hot betas section used to be beta only but now it is a place to highlight Web 2.0 things, mainly, that we see or hear about. MindMeister This reporter has tried mind mapping software from Microsoft in the day...

Posted by vt on September 23, 2007 5:39 PM

Trigami Financed To Get More Bloggers To Write About Clients' Products

Swiss startup Trigami has raised capital from active Swiss and German business angels, including Peter Schuepbach (who also invested XING, studiVZ, plazes, Hitflip, Smava, and kyte.tv) and several other names regular readers will recognize [via Trigami founder Remo Uhrek's...

Posted by vt on September 20, 2007 7:19 AM

NottaClone.de or Web 2.0 Originals out of Germany

Who knew that the original source for software for managing content of Wikipedia's massively popular onlilne encyclopedia was German? We didn't (University of Cologne was the source, the story goes). It's something we learned after following up the comments to...

Posted by vt on May 16, 2007 5:29 AM

Smava Tops Angels With Earlybird Money

Earlybird, the German VC, wrote in to say that it has led a €4M financing round for smava, the Zopa clone for the German market. We wrote about smava and its business back in March (see below). The smava...

Posted by vt on May 14, 2007 4:40 PM

Stress Reduction Web 2.0 Style

The topic is the business kind of stress -- not the astute and popular Swiss hiphop artist Stress. Yesterday, Peter Schuepbach, the Swiss business angel who's invested in Xing.com, Plazes, StudiVZ, Hitflip, and is also an entrepreneur, said he's found...

Posted by vt on March 23, 2007 7:27 AM

RH Draws The Venture Market In Europe

Farley Duvall, a Red Herrring conference organizer and regular a:c euro reader, sent us last night a list of the people he has signed up for the RedHerring 100 invitation-only confab in Cannes this month. He's got pulling power. We...

Posted by vt on March 13, 2007 5:49 AM

Plazes Taps Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures For First Round

Plazes, a web and mobile location enabling startup, has raised €2.7M from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures invested €2.7m in its first round. It follows last year's seed financing from well-known angel investors Esther Dyson (who runs several industry conferences and...

Posted by vt on February 5, 2007 5:23 PM

Plazes Network Networks With Google Maps

Over at Plazes blog we read today that it has teamed up with the folks at Google Earth to integrate their users' location data into its maps. We wrote about Plazes a while ago when it attracted some angel...

Posted by vt on November 29, 2006 1:14 PM

German Web 2.0 Confab

Via Christian Leybold at BVCapital, we heard about a two-day Web 2.0 event in Germany. If we were not going to be on holiday that week, we'd be there too because the program has a good mix of startups...

Posted by vt on September 18, 2006 6:58 AM

Nokia Acquires VC-Backed Gate5 In Berlin

Nokia has agreed to acquire gate5, a Berlin-based developer of navigation software and services for an undisclosed amount. There is no disclosure on the terms and conditions. Neither the VC firms that led Gate5's last round or the firm have...

Posted by vt on September 1, 2006 6:15 AM

Swiss Web 2.0 Contenders

When we published a list of German Web 2.0 firms last month, we said we'd cover other countries too. Today it's Switzerland getting the treatment. You can complain that some of them aren't Web 2.0, but we decided that...

Posted by vt on April 19, 2006 4:59 PM

Netz 2.0 aka Germany’s Web 2.0 Contenders

Several readers have written to ask about Web 2.0 in Europe, so the alarm:clock euro turned to Cologne-based Klaas Bollhoefer for his list of Web 2.0 services in Germany. The Internet and mobile services consultant, who maintains the web.xpunktnull.de blog,...

Posted by vt on March 31, 2006 4:49 AM

Locate-me startup, Plazes, popular with techies, gets funded

A Swiss Web 2.0 company finds investors, gets to work on making its techie oriented application more user friendly.

Posted by vt on February 26, 2006 3:10 PM