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Company Profile for Skype.


Skype, the Global Telephony Company, allows people everywhere to make free, unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its innovative peer-to-peer internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks.  software. Skype is available in 20 languages and is the fastest growing voice communications offering worldwide. Since its launch in August 2003, Skype has been downloaded more than 15 million times. Skype Technologies S.A. is headquartered in Luxembourg and is growing its office in London and technology development team in Tallinn. Skype Technologies is privately held and backed by top-tier international venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed
5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1]
, including Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. , Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments. , Index Ventures, and Mangrove mangrove, large tropical evergreen tree, genus Rhizophora, that grows on muddy tidal flats and along protected ocean shorelines. Mangroves are most abundant in tropical Asia, Africa, and the islands of the SW Pacific.  Venture Partners.

Skype and the Global P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point.  Telephony Company are (registered) trademarks of Skype. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. www.skype.com
Company:                    Skype

    Headquarters Address:       130 Shaftesbury Avenue
                                London
                                United Kingdom

    Main Telephone:             +44 (0)207 031 4437

    Type of Organization:       Private

    Industry:                   Technology: Software

    Key Executives:             PR: Kat James

    Public Relations
        Contact:                Dan Twigg
        Phone:                  +44 (0)7887 570257
        Email:                  dan_twigg@yahoo.com

    Public Relations
        Contact:                Kat James
        Phone:                  +44 (0)1273 728331
        Email:                  kat.james@skype.net
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