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Skype

Skype is a communications company, a subsidiary of Microsoft, and developer of video chat and voice calls over the internet founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis and Toivo Annus.

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Funding Rounds

$26.8m

Money raised

Overview

Skype is a communications company, a subsidiary of Microsoft, and developer of video chat and voice calls over the internet founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis and Toivo Annus.

Funding

Funding series

Funding Series Analysis

The company Skype has raised a total of $26.81m in funding over 4 rounds.

Key Insights:

  • Skype funding round, April 2010: $7.76m
  • Skype Series B round: $18.8m
  • Skype angel round: $250k
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Skype funding round, April 2010 $7.76m
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Skype Series B round $18.8m
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Skype angel round $250k

Industries

Skype is active in the following industries:
  • Videoconferencing
  • VoIP
  • Video conferencing
  • Chat (industry)
  • Software
  • Telecommunications
  • Speech recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Natural language processing (NLP)
  • Technology
  • Voice Translation

Subsidiaries

Skype operates through the following subsidiaries: