Index Ventures

Sectors:

Applications, Communications, Consumer, Ecommerce, Enterprise, Internet, Media, Open source

Geographies:

Switzerland, US, Spain, UK, Sweden

Contact:

, Skype: danny

Location:

US

Assistant:

Aimee Keegan -

Danny Rimer joined Index Ventures in 2002 and established the firm's London office. His investment interests include Internet infrastructure software and services.

He currently serves on a number of boards including Astley Clarke, Boku, Factual, Flipboard, FON, Oanda, Sky (BSY), Stardoll, Rightscale, Swipely, Trialpay and viagogo. He's an observer on the board of Etsy and he is also a director of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centers.  He previously was a director of KVS (Symantec), Last.fm (CBS), Lovefilm (Amazon), MySQL (Sun), Neoteris (Juniper) and Skype (eBay).

Prior to joining Index, Danny was a general partner of The Barksdale Group, where he invested in a dozen companies including CrossGain (BEA), Ofoto (Kodak) and TellMe (Microsoft). Prior to joining The Barksdale Group, Danny was Managing Director in Hambrecht & Quist's (JP Morgan) Equity Research Group and was responsible for the firm's Internet practice. At H&Q, Danny was the underwriting analyst for companies including Amazon, Netscape, and Verisign. He also sponsored direct investments in over 20 companies.

He holds an A.B from Harvard College.

Skype is a global P2P telephony company that is changing voice communications by moving voice calling to the Internet. Acquired by eBay in October 2005.

Details

Contact:

Danny Rimer, Saul Klein, Mike Volpi

Website:

www.skype.com

Status:

Exited

Sector(s):

Communications, Consumer

Stage(s)

Early stage

Geography:

US

News

Sep 12 2005

eBay to Acquire Skype

Mar 15 2004

SKYPE Closes 'B' Round Funding from Top Venture Capitalists