Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Pierre Chappaz http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 17:49:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Wikio Raises $25 Million In Funding, Renames To EBuzzing http://pulse2.com/2011/08/31/wikio-raises-25-million-in-funding-renames-to-ebuzzing/ http://pulse2.com/2011/08/31/wikio-raises-25-million-in-funding-renames-to-ebuzzing/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:40:00 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=50719 Continue reading →]]>
Wikio Group is a company that is known for running a news engine called Wikio. The company has raised $25 million in funding and has renamed the company to EBuzzing. Investors include Gimv, who put in $14.5 million and Wikio founder Pierre Chappaz.

EBuzzing is a Wikio property that made $15 million in 2010 revenue. They expect to make $25 million this year. The company employs 160 people across various European cities. Ebuzzing CEO Pierre Chappaz said that the funding will allow them to speed up their growth throughout Europe.

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]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/08/31/wikio-raises-25-million-in-funding-renames-to-ebuzzing/feed/ 0 Netvibes Makes Couple Million In Revenue, Leaning Towards Profitability http://pulse2.com/2009/05/30/netvibes-makes-couple-million-in-revenue-leaning-towards-profitability/ http://pulse2.com/2009/05/30/netvibes-makes-couple-million-in-revenue-leaning-towards-profitability/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 07:29:32 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=15846 Continue reading →]]> netvibes-logo
Earlier this week, I read an interesting piece from GigaOM about my favorite homepage Netvibes.com.  I depend heavily on Netvibes so I personally hope that this company succeeds.

The company has about $16 million in funding from Index Ventures, Accel Partners, Neil Rimer, Marc Andreessen, Pierre Chappaz, and Martin Varsavsky.

Last week Netvibes unleashed a new feature that allows users to build their own custom start pages.  Netvibes is able to make money by offering white-label and corporate versions of their service.

“We are on our way to being breakeven this year,” stated Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini. “We are focused on profitability this year.” That’s not bad, considering he is up against Google’s iGoogle platform.”  Netvibes receives about 3 million active visitors per month.

The company has made about a couple of million dollars in revenue this year.  The company plans on tripling sales by signing up several large customers.  The reason I found GigaOM’s post so interesting is because I did not know much about Netvibes’ revenue until now.  Based on these figures, if you depend on Netvibes as much as I do, you can remain confident that this service will be here in the long run.

[via GigaOM]

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