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Danny Rimer
- 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 AstleyClarke, FON, Joost, Maggies Cancer Caring, Oanda, Sky (BSY), Spot Runner, Stardoll, Trialpay, Viagogo and Woome. 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.
Current focus
- Sectors:
- Applications, Communications, Consumer, Ecommerce, Enterprise, Internet, Media, Open source
- Geographies:
- Switzerland, US, Spain, UK, Sweden
Contact details
- Email:
- Skype:
- danny
- Location:
- UK
- Assistant:
- Sayula Kirby -
Skype (eBay)
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
- Website:
- www.skype.com
- Status:
- Past
- Sector(s):
- Communications, Consumer