Vuze.com Closes $20M round with New Investor NEA
I am happy to help spread the news that our portfolio company Vuze - the open, high-resolution Internet TV platform formerly known as Azureus – has closed [...]
Yearly archive for 2007
Sonim XP1 – The Phone for Real Men
Our portfolio company Sonim [Disclosure: Yes, if you spend 250Eur here you support an investment of BV Capital] just got its first big German review of its XP1 “toughest mobile phone” [...]
YouBubble
Not a single conversation with a VC these days goes by without two questions: (1) How long will the sun still shine on Internet investing? [...]
My talk at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin
This morning I gave a talk on “Business Models for Web 2.0 companies” at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. For those interested, the slides can be [...]
Hi-Media Group Enters into Agreement to Acquire Fotolog
Congratulations to everyone in our portfolio company Fotolog! These guys have worked incredibly hard for many years to build what has become an extremely close-knit [...]
Startupvergnuegen.com – Put Your Startup on the Map!
Want to put your startup on the map? Here’s your chance: The two fantastic students working for me (they did all the real work!) decided [...]
Techcrunch Party at August Capital
Thanks to the folks at Vuze, I got a ticket to the Techcrunch Party at August Capital. I have to say that for anyone wanting [...]
FAZ: US VCs Coming to Germany
The FAZ posted an article today claiming that an increasing number of US VCs are starting to look for investments in Germany and also considering [...]
The Worldbank Releases Buzz Tracking Software
The Worldbank released a piece of software called BuzzMonitor that keeps track of what is being said about the Worldbank on the Internet. While I [...]
Disk Trouble and Help from Ukraine
Suddenly, my old Buffalo LinkStation network storage at home crashed, and of course there was some data on there I had not recently backed up…so [...]