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Atomico Ventures

Type: Company

Name: Atomico Ventures

Nationality: United Kingdom

Web Address: http://www.atomico.com/

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for Atomico Ventures

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Niklas Zennström

Flash Sales Site Fab Acquires US$250M-US$300M Investment

Accordingto source from Tech.163.com on May 21, the Billion-Dollar Club, composed ofstart-ups worth at least US$1B, would welcome a new member shortly afterward. It was said that Fab, flashsales site was in the later period of negotiation on a new round ... [Published PEdaily.cn - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Atomico Ventures, Lead Investor, Niklas Zennström

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Web Summit to host Nasdaq opening

Web Summit to host opening bell for Nasdaq in OctoberTrading on the Nasdaq stock exchange, the world's leading market for technology stocks, will be opened for the first time from Ireland on October 30.The opening bell will be rung live on stage in front ... [Published RTE Online - May 22 2013]

Entities: Phil Libin, Atomico Ventures, Matt Mullenweg, Ireland, Niklas Zennström

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Design E-Commerce Startup Fab Is Raising ‘At Least’ $250 Million

Design site Fab.com is reportedly raising between $250 million and $300 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.It’s not a done deal, but it’s expected to close by mid-June, according to the WSJ’s sources.Existing investor Atomico is expected to ... [Published Business Insider Australia - May 21 2013]

Entities: Electronic Commerce, Startup, Gilt Groupe Inc, Atomico Ventures

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Atomico Ventures

Fab Raising at Least $250 Million

The billion-dollar startup club may soon get a new member.Online design retailer Fab Inc. is in advanced talks to raise $250 million to $300 million in venture capital in a deal that would value the fast-growing but unprofitable company at $1 billion ... [Published All Things D - May 21 2013]

Entities: Fab Industries Inc, Atomico Ventures, Venture Capital

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Yo! Finally, an App to Get a Taxi

Residents and visitors can now hail a yellow taxi in the Big Apple using a smartphone app, and they'll soon be able pay for a cab with their phone.The e-hailing cab service Hailo begins its one-year trial in the New York area today, Ashwini Chhabra, deputy ... [Published CNBC - May 01 2013]

Entities: Hailo, Smartphone, Wellington Partners, Atomico Ventures

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Jobster

Ex-Jobster founder Jason Goldberg pivoting Fab, this time challenging Amazon

Those in the Seattle startup community may remember Jason Goldberg. The former T-Mobile manager and White House aide$ was one of the more colorful characters in this community and$ co-founded the online recruiting startup Jobster in 2003, which eventually ... [Published King5.com - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Jason Goldberg, Startup, Jobster, Seattle

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Skype

Dan Hynes to head up Atomico?s Talent team supporting our Portfolio Companies globally

Atomico has just hired Dan Hynes as our Managing Director for Talent. Dan, the former Director of Global Staffing at Skype join our growing Value Creation Team, a team dedicated to supporting our portfolio companies and sharing best practices.Dan's arrival ... [Published Atomico - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Atomico Ventures, Portfolio Companies, Skype, Value Creation, London

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Gengo Closes a New Round of Funding with Intel Capital, Atomico, Iris Capital, Infocomm Investments, NTT-IP Fund and STC Ventures

You are here: Home >> SPi World News >> World Market Sector NewsGengo, the translation platform for global companies, announced that the company has recently closed a US$12M round of funding led by Intel Capital, along with participation from ... [Published SPi World News - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Iris Capital, Atomico Ventures, Intel Capital Corp

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 3 reports

Japanese translation service Gengo gets $12M from Intel Capital

Gengo, a Tokyo-based startup specializing in people-powered translation, has just taken its second round of institutional funding. The deal, which totals $12 million, was led by Intel Capital with participation from previous investor Atomico as ... [Published Venturebeat - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Intel Capital Corp, Startup, Iris Capital

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 2 reports

Confirmed: Red-Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Raised $130M, Made $179M Last Quarter

Last month, we posted a bit of a rumor: that Finland’s Supercell — likely the most lucrative iOS gaming company in the world — had raised about $100 million in funding in a round led by Index Ventures, Atomico Partners and Institutional Venture Partners. ... [Published TechCrunch - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Gaming, Startup, Atomico Ventures

First reported Mar 28 2013 - Updated Mar 29 2013 - 2 reports

Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M At Valuation Around $800M

Supercell is a very quiet, humble mobile gaming company out of the very quiet and humble city of Helsinki, Finland . Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo, they don’t like to talk much about anything beyond ... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 28 2013]

Entities: Gaming, Mobile Gaming, Atomico Ventures, Clash of Clans

First reported Mar 14 2013 - Updated Mar 14 2013 - 2 reports

Bebestore Lands $10.2M From W7, Atomico In The Race For Brazil's Kid-Focused eCommerce Market

After nearly being eradicated when the Dot-com bubble burst in 2000, the Brazilian startup community has been slow to come back. However, over the last two years, growth has been accelerating and Brazil’s startups seem poised to make a comeback. As ... [Published TechCrunch - Mar 14 2013]

Entities: Atomico Ventures, Brazil, Electronic Commerce, Startup

Quotes

"We’re delighted to see Nasdaq recognising the Web Summit as the platform for tech companies in Europe. This is an extraordinary coup for us as the opening of the market is watched by millions and rarely takes place outside of New York" said Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave

Web Summit to host Nasdaq opening [Published RTE Online - May 22 2013]

"In 60 days you will be able to hail and pay from your smartphone" said Hailo CEO Jay Bregman. "That is historic."

Yo! Finally, an App to Get a Taxi [Published CNBC - May 01 2013]

...one really takes the cake I think [in terms of growth], but the games area is an area where companies can grow quite rapidly," Miller explained. "Once we learned more about the company, we got more and more comfortable that they weren't a one-hit wonder. They have two games and the beauty is that the games are very different."

Supercell Is A New $770 Million Startup, And It Generates $2.4 Million Per Day [Published Business Insider - Apr 17 2013]

...flight back home to Helsinki, Paananen says that companies that place revenue above fun (weâre talking to you, Zynga) will ultimately fail. "It really is that simpleâjust design something great, something that users love" says the 34-year-old

Is This the Fastest-Growing Game Company Ever? [Published Forbes.com - Apr 17 2013]

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Funding roundup - week ending 04/26/13 [Published Vator.tv - Apr 26 2013]
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Upstarts: Hardware, Gun Control, Quantified Pets [Published Forbes.com - Apr 20 2013]
Funding roundup - week ending 04/19/13 [Published Vator.tv - Apr 19 2013]
Tech London Advocates: Just what capital entrep... [Published startups.co.uk - Apr 19 2013]
Hailo Is Hiring To Bring Its On-Demand Taxi App... [Published Taaza.com - Apr 18 2013]
The Daily Startup: VCs Buy In to Mobile Game Ma... [Published WSJ.com: Venture Capital Dispatch - Apr 18 2013]
Atomico Invests Over $25m in Supercell [Published Atomico - Apr 18 2013]
Investors Take $130M Stake in Supercell [Published Dow Jones Financial Information Services - Apr 17 2013]
Supercell Is A New $770 Million Startup, And It... [Published Business Insider - Apr 17 2013]
Institutional Venture Partners explains why it ... [Published Venturebeat - Apr 17 2013]

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Is Quasar Ventures the new Rocket Internet for ... [Published The Next Web - May 12 2013] Argentina-based firm Quasar Ventures has raised a $5.4 million round of financing led by Silicon Valley VC fund Emergence Capital Partners to develop ten new technology companies in the coming four years.Several big names from Latin America’s tech ...
Is Quasar Ventures the new Rocket Internet for ... [Published The Next Web - May 12 2013] Argentina-based firm Quasar Ventures has raised a $5.4 million round of financing led by Silicon Valley VC fund Emergence Capital Partners to develop ten new technology companies in the coming four years. Several big names from Latin America’s ...
Funding daily: Not your grandmother’s tech [Published Venturebeat - Apr 24 2013] Today, we saw an inordinate amount of funding announcements from startups based in Silicon Valley and in tech hubs around the world. As far afield as Japan, disruptive companies raised multimillions to bring their products to the next phase of ...
Japanese translation service Gengo gets $12M fr... [Published Venturebeat - Apr 23 2013] Gengo, a Tokyo-based startup specializing in people-powered translation, has just taken its second round of institutional funding. The deal, which totals $12 million, was led by Intel Capital with participation from previous investor Atomico as ...
FreedomPop expands its free Internet service na... [Published The Next Web - Apr 23 2013] FreedomPop has expanded coverage of its free Internet service to reach 220 million possible customers in the US by adding Sprint’s 3G network to the fold. With the announcement, FreedomPop has begun taking orders for its Overdrive Pro hotspot device, ...

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W7 Brazil Capital and Atomico Invest R$ 20 Mill... [Published Business Wire Retail News - Mar 15 2013]