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 its third round of funding. The $20M financing was led by new investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mike Ramsay, co-founder of TiVo, is joining the Vuze Board of Directors. We are excited that […]
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Vuze.com Closes $20M round with New Investor NEA
December 19th, 2007
Sonim XP1 - The Phone for Real Men
December 11th, 2007
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” from T-Online. I have played with it in the US a bit already and tried to throw it out of the window of our office in the Transamerica Pyramid but […]
YouBubble
December 7th, 2007
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? and (2) does the subprime/debt crisis have any effect? While we all should admit that we don’t know the right answer to (1), direct impact of the financial crisis on […]
My talk at Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin
November 6th, 2007
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 downloaded here.Looks like there is a good turnout of people here, it’s just unfortunate that the Berlin Fairgrounds that were chosen as a venue must be the blandest space there is […]
Hi-Media Group Enters into Agreement to Acquire Fotolog
August 27th, 2007
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 and active community of people sharing pictures on a daily basis. This is not “just another” photo sharing site, but a communications platform where people communicate through daily uploading of […]
Startupvergnuegen.com - Put Your Startup on the Map!
August 16th, 2007
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 that my idea of mapping start-ups in flickrvision.com-style could be some fun so we threw a few hours of work at it and here’s the result: www.startupvergnuegen.com
What’s it for?
Some fun: […]
FAZ: US VCs Coming to Germany
July 6th, 2007
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 to open offices in London. Now, haven’t we heard this story once before? 1999 all over again?
However, when you read on, the authors point out that most of the investments […]
The Worldbank Releases Buzz Tracking Software
June 26th, 2007
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 haven’t tried it (you have to set it up on a server) it has some interesting features like using the Yahoo terms API for automatic tag extraction from all incoming […]
Jobs & Gates Interview
June 21st, 2007
It’s been a few weeks since Steve Jobs and Bill Gates sat down for an interview together at the Wall Street Journal’s D conference. Only now did I have time to watch it, and can only recommend doing so. The beginning is great - a flashback to 1983 with a Jobs looking like a grad […]
Don’t look!
June 21st, 2007
The folks at verwandt.de are currently running an online version of one of my favorite children’s birthday games…sort of an online treasure hunt where the clues are hidden in various places. I like the idea, so I agreed to hide one on my blog…finally linkbaiting that is some fun!
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