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RUMOR: Nokia Buys Out Social Travel Company Dopplr.com

Amit Chowdhry | September 24, 2009 | 860 views | Add a Comment
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Dopplr is a social travel company that was just reportedly acquired by Nokia. Although the price was not disclosed, the rumored price is about $15-$22 million. This is Nokia’s third acquisition in the last two months. Earlier this month Nokia bought out Plum and last month they bought out cellity.

Dopplr is based in London and they focus on getting consumers to reveal where they plan to travel in the future. This makes it so that they can set up meetings at different locations. Altogether Dopplr.com raised about $1.8 million. The founder and CEO of Dopplr Marko Ahtisaari was previously Director of Design Strategy at Nokia. Many other employees at Dopplr also previously worked at Nokia.

Once we have confirmation, this post will be updated.

Dopplr Raises Second Round From Plethora Of Investors

Amit Chowdhry | September 16, 2008 | 1,202 views | Add a Comment
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Dopplr is a website where users share travel plans for networking purposes.  The investors in this round includes:
- Esther Dyson (EDventure.com),
- Tyler Brûlé (journalist/entrepreneur, Monocle.com Editor-In-Chief),
- Thomas Glocer (CEO/Director of Thomson Reuters PLC),
- Yat Siu (Founder/CEO of Outblaze),
- Aditya dev Sood (Founder and CEO of the Center for Knowledge Societies),
- Lars Hinrichs (CEO of Xing.com),
- Joshua Schachter (Founder of Del.icio.us),
- Brian Behlendorf (Primary developer of Apache Web server),
- Ami Hasan,
- Daniel Sachs,
- Joshua Cooper Ramo (Partner at Kissinger Associates in Beijing),
- Kim Weckström (Avaus Consulting),
- Saul Klein (early stage investor),
- Azeem Azhar (Managing Partner at Open Capital Partners)

Saul Klein was also part of the last round of funding which included seasoned entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and Creative Commons CEO Joichi Ito.

“Dopplr is leading the way in intention sharing services online. It is valuable to know where your trusted friends and colleagues will be, and where you could meet them next,” stated Dopplr CEO Lisa Sounio. “Partner brands on Dopplr will also give you relevant information and offers tailored to you. For example, when you tell Dopplr your plans to go to Hong Kong, you might get the latest intelligence from Monocle and offers from boutique hotels picked by Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

Users can subscribe to travel plans with other users on the site and link it to the built-in calendar.  This travel social network competes directly with TripIt.com and ASmallWorld.com.    Dopplr plans to use the funding to expand within it’s strong base in Europe.  Dopplr currently has offices in London, England and Helsinki, Finland.

Dopplr was founded by Matt Biddulph, Matt Jones, Lisa Sounio, and Dan Gillmor with Marko Ahtisaari as a founding investor. 

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