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London's Wahanda Funded As Online Spa Network
Skype Founding Engineers Invest In Paris' Online Real Estate Site Drimki
German/Swiss Location Startup Plazes Bought By Nokia
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June 30, 2008
London's Wahanda Funded As Online Spa Network
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Wahanda is a health and wellness community plus e-commerce marketplace where local spa and wellness businesses, pros and consumers mix. The company has raised a seed round of funding from the former engineering founders who built Skype, the investors behind last.fm and a former top exec at Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts. We got in touch with Ambient Sound Investments to confirm that it was indeed them who invested in Wahanda but they say they have yet to make a formal announcement.
Wahanda is led by Salim Mitha who was Senior European Director - Search & Social Search at Yahoo! and Lopo Champalimaud who was Managing Director European Lifestyle at lastminute.com.
Via Wahanda, we learned of a trendy man-spa in Covent Garden where we can get a botox treatment. Useful.
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June 26, 2008
Skype Founding Engineers Invest In Paris' Online Real Estate Site Drimki
Ambient Sound Investments has made a seed investment in Paris-based Drimki. The startup runs an online real estate platform for at residential real estate buyers and sellers. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Ambient Sound is the investment vehicle for the founding engineers of Skype. Drimki had raised seed funding from the co-founders of Kelkoo, which was acquired by Yahoo! in April 2004.
Drimki is interesting to us because it is starting out as a Paris-only service. We don't see that happening state-side real estate sites funded for NYC only. But maybe its a good idea given what Drimki has to offer.You get geolocation properties. Maps that provide analysis on pricing in the region during past 5 years, with info nearby shops, schools, bus stops, hospitals, etc.
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June 24, 2008
German/Swiss Location Startup Plazes Bought By Nokia
Nokia has bought Germany location-based Web 2.0 and mobile firm Plazes for an undisclosed amount. as our sister site the a:c euro reported, Plazes is a Swiss company that was founded in December 2005 with R&D is in Berlin. Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures invested €2.7m in its first round in February 2007. In 2006, Plazes won seed financing from well-known angel investors Esther Dyson, Marc Andreessen) and Martin Varsavsky (FON founder).
Pazes is a website that users exploit to locate friends, colleagues, and wireless hotspots. The user downloads a client which sends the users' location back to the Plazes database and that spot or location can then be searched, mapped and located by other registered users. It can also be edited with photo, text descriptions, and other bits of info.
Plazes doesn't seem to get much traffic and certainly there is no business model to speak of so we suspect that Nokia got a good bargain with this one and can certainly figure out how to evangelize usage for a product that should have appeal beyond its current geek crowd.
The German narrator here makes Plazes seem as dull as dirt, but you still get a good idea of how it works.
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