Skype

Skype

Skype is the world's fastest-growing service for Internet communication, allowing people everywhere to make unlimited voice and video calls for free. Skype is available in 27 languages and is used in almost every country around the world. Skype generates revenue through its premium service offerings such as making and receiving calls to and from landline and mobile phones, as well as voicemail and call forwarding services. Skype also has a growing network of hardware and software partners.

quick facts
Founded:2003
Founders:Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis
Headquarters:Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Skype founders

Niklas Zennström
Niklas Zennström
Age:46 (Born: February 16, 1966)
Other companies founded:Joost

Niklas Zennström is an entrepreneur best known for founding several high-profile online ventures with Janus Friis including Skype and Kazaa. More recently he founded the investment group Atomico and has become a significant figurehead for entrepreneurs in the tech sector. Zennström...
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Janus Friis
Janus Friis
Age:35 (Born: June 26, 1976)
Other companies founded:Joost

Janus Friis is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. In September 2005, he and his partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B. Friis has maintained ownership interest in Skype through...
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Headquarters of Skype

Luxembourg
Luxembourg

The city of Luxembourg , also known as Luxembourg City , is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It is located at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse Rivers in southern Luxembourg. The city contains the historic Luxembourg Castle, established by...
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Current Skype board members

Tony Bates
Tony Bates
Board member since:October 2010

Tony Bates is the Senior Vice President /General Manager of Cisco’s Service Provider Group .

Parent company of Skype

eBay
eBay
Headquarters:San Jose, Salt Lake City, San Jose
Founded:September 3, 1995
Founders:Pierre Omidyar

eBay Inc. is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. eBay expanded from its original...
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Companies acquired by Skype

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Venture Investments

FON
FON
Headquarters:Madrid

FON is a virtual Community of WiFi users and provides access to its Community and other data services worldwide by making use of spare bandwidth from customers’ broadband connections. FON has developed a software that can be installed into a WiFi router, converting that router into a FON hotspot, which can then be used to access the Internet and other data services by the owner of the connection and others as allowed by FON.

Other companies in the same city as Skype

Arcelor-Mittal
Arcelor-Mittal
Revenue: $105,216,000,000

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    Who invested in Skype?
  • A:
    Investments were made by from the following firms:
    - Draper Fisher Jurvetson
    - Index Ventures
    - Tim Draper
    - Draper Investment Company
    - Bessemer Venture Partners
    - Mangrove Capital Partners
  • Q:
    Who was the company founder of Skype?
  • A:
    Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis started the business.
  • Q:
    During which year was Skype founded?
  • A:
    The company was founded in 2003.

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