Acton Capital makes its first investment
Long-term partner Acton Capital (for whom I act as a venture partner for North-America) has just announced their first investment of their new late-stage consumer internet fund joining Index Ventures and Highland Capital Partners as an investor in Glasses Direct. UK-based Glasses Direct is Europe’s largest online prescription glasses retailer and will use the funds […]
New investment: Find and book special hotels through Escapio.com
As already announced this past week, Burda Digital Ventures and W Media Ventures have jointly invested in Escapio.com, a booking platform for selected hotels. Escapio is a sister company of Tripsbytips, the German travel community that Uwe Frers and myself started about 3 years ago. As Uwe is also the entrepreneur behind Escapio, it made […]
Mystery: where does Yahoo’s search traffic go to?
Every time I read about Yahoo‘s share of the search market I wonder to what sites the Yahoo traffic is actually going. Here is the mystery: depending on the source, Yahoo’s share of the US search market is around 20% give or take (e.g. Compete numbers or ComScore numbers) but when I look at the […]
Google versus Facebook?
RBC came out with a very interesting analysis today that looked at how much Facebook and Google were complements or on a collission course and it got quite some attention among tech blogs (e.g. SI). RBC’s conclusion: Complementary (For Now): Google and Facebook are two of the fastest growing and largest companies on the internet, […]
TeamPages closes second round of financing
Securing additional financing is one of the most important (and toughest) tasks for start-ups these days – so I want to congratulate Mike Tan and his team for closing a second round of financing for TeamPages that also brought a few new investors into the company. TeamPages has shown some very good traction over the […]