• Spanish Social Network, Wamba, Scores 3M Euros in Funding from Early Skype Investor

    Friday, September 28th, 2007

    Mark Hendrickson is the product lead at Lift. . Formerly, he was the CEO and co-founder of the consumer internet company Worldly Developments and, prior to that, a writer and web designer for TechCrunch. → Learn More

    ¡Que rico! Early Skype investor Morten Lund has gained 40% ownership of Wamba after making an investment of 3M euros in the Spanish social network.

    Wamba launched this past March as a Pan-European social network but has recently focused on Latin America where it will compete with hi5, MySpace, and Orkut (although apparently with the intention of capturing the Spanish-speaking, not the Portuguese-speaking, market). The company plans to launch an IPTV called Wamba.TV and a radio music service called Wamba.FM.

    Funding for Wamba previously came from Matias de Tezanos, who contributed $500,000 as an angel investor. The company was founded by Spanish entrepreneur Enrique Dubois.

    Skype was acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6 billion. Wamba is presently valued at 7.5M euros.

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