Skype Folks Raising New Fund To Conquer Europe

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Skype Folks Raising New Fund To Conquer Europe

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GigaOM reports that Skype co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, together with another ex-Skype employee, Geoffrey Prentice, are raising a big new fund which will invest in European startups through their investment group, Atomico.

Atomico is known for investing in several big European startups: FON, Seesmic, Joost, and Last.FM, the last of which was sold to CBS for 280 million dollars.

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