Atomico Invests €350,000 In Simple File-Sharing Startup Ge.tt

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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
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Atomico, the venture capital firm founded by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, has invested 350,000 euros in Denmark-based Ge.tt, which offers an eponymous Web-based file sharing service.

Ge.tt is simple, clean, and useful. Like many file-sharing services, Ge.tt makes it easy for people to shoot files to the cloud so they can be shared with others, all from a browser-based application.

Read more at TechCrunch Europe.


Company: Ge.tt
Website: ge.tt
Launch Date: November 1, 2010
Funding: €350k

With the motto “click, share, move on” we are ready to change the way we think of sharing files online. Sharing files today is based on an old web paradigm where you first have to store a file on a server before someone else can download it. Ge.tt changes this. With ge.tt, users can share and publish files in an instant. No matter how numerous or how large, the files are ready to download in the second they are selected....

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