Index Ventures

Sectors:

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

Geographies:

Switzerland, US, Spain, UK, Sweden

Contact:

, Skype: danny

Location:

UK

Assistant:

Sayula Kirby -

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, FON, Oanda, Sky (BSY), Stardoll, Rightscale, Swipely, Trialpay and Viagogo. He is also a director of Maggie's Cancer Caring Centers.  He previously was a director of KVS (Symantec), Last.fm (CBS), Lovefilm, 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, 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 2005

SKYPE Closes 'B' Round Funding from Top Venture Capitalists