eBuddy, instant messaging co., raises 5M Euros in first round

Editor | October 26th, 2006

Amsterdam start-up EBuddy, a company that offers web-based way to access instant messaging, has secured €5 million in a first round of capital from Lowland Capital Partners.

EBuddy gives users a way to chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo accounts without having to install any program.

EBuddy says it has more than 35 million users worldwide, including 4 million mobile users. However, as we mentioned yesterday, traffic statistics in this area are unreliable, and it is unclear how eBuddy is doing against competitor Meebo, a Sequoia backed Silicon Valley start-up. The two are essentially neck and neck, depending on which traffic measurement firm you rely on.

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7 Comments

  1. October 26th, 2006
    12:54 pm

    thompson said:

    how will these two fare when aol makes its own web-im interface and/or blocks third parties from doing this?

    i just don’t see how these are businesses worth buying into, especially not to the tune of millions of dollars or euros.

  2. October 26th, 2006
    6:44 pm

    Dave said:

    Interesting to see how these guys will apprach this burgeoning market. I think Meebo and E-Buddy are competing in a different space with Geesee it seems. Example there are two types of burgeoning IM company (i) online clients for you existing IM (meebo, Ebuddy etc) - nice, but nothing earth shattering (ii) then you have the really intersing kind that are - distributed IM social networks across the long tail (InCircles, Geesee - both stealth startups to my knowledge).

    A great example of a company that get’s the social IM concept is MyBlogLog - I think it’s great that eBuddy got funded, but my gut tells me that the really big market potential is going to the companies that connect the dots to these ever increasing niche social sites/blogs/events/videos

  3. October 27th, 2006
    12:24 am

    Dave said:

    so many players in the space:

    meebo

    ebuddy

    iloveim

    koolim

    radiusim

    messengerfx

    it will be interesting to see what happens.

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    12:52 am

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    http://www.ajaxprojects.com/ajax/projects/Cool_AJAX_sites/ebuddy.php

  5. December 2nd, 2006
    9:52 am

    Cassie said:

    Cool link, thnx for the update AJAX! :)

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    11:51 pm

    louise said:

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    7:23 am

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