Lowland Capital Partners
Lireweg 14 – 16, Nieuw-Vennep, Noord-Holland, 2153 PH, The Netherlands
Overview
Founded in 2003, Lowland Capital Partners (LCP) is a venture capital firm based in the Netherlands. Objective Their objective is to create value by building lasting partnerships with talented entrepreneurs and providing them with the capital, market expertise and broad networkof relationships necessary to build companies that will shape the future of their industry. To achieve their goal, they invest in companies with compelling growth opportunities and partner with management teams looking for more than capital. Focus LCP focusses on early and growth stage ventures across Europe, mainly active in the telecommunications, technology and media sectors. Investors The investors behind LCP are a wide group of successful entrepreneurs from across the globe. These investors have provided LCP with their trust to put their capital to work.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- eBuddy
Led · Equity · Oct 2006
eBuddy is a messaging startup that enables multi-client chat on the web and mobile. Founded in 2003 as e-Messenger and based in Amsterdam, it provides messaging services with a large user database. The company employs 85 full-time staff and reports 300 million IM users in its database. eBuddy recently sold a strategic minority stake to GREE; co-founder Jan-Joost Rueb described the transaction as a "strategic minority investment." The deal resulted in two GREE executives joining eBuddy’s five-member board. No revenue figures for eBuddy are disclosed in the article. eBuddy is a browser-based web chat application that enables users to log into AOL, Google Talk, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo Messenger from its website without additional software. The company originally operated as eMessenger and relaunched as eBuddy in June 2006. According to Comscore, eBuddy and Meebo had roughly comparable worldwide traffic in December 2007 (4.5 million for eBuddy versus 4.8 million for Meebo). eBuddy reports internal metrics of about 12 million monthly unique users and 1.5 million new users added each month. Financially, the company completed a €6.5 million Series B and had previously raised €5 million. The service competes directly with Meebo as a browser-based multi-network instant messaging client. eBuddy (formerly e-Messenger) is a web instant‑messaging service that serves chat sessions in a pop-up window. Founded in 2003 and based in the Netherlands, the company says it has 35 million users worldwide, including 4 million mobile users. eBuddy reports it is adding more than 1.5 million new users every month. The product contrasts with competitors (like Meebo) that embed chat in the primary browser window or via frames. The company announced its first external financing of €5 million from Lowland Capital Partners; no revenue or valuation figures are provided in the article.
Team
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