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Websiteebuddy.com
Blogblog.ebuddy.com
Twitter@ebuddy
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Phone+31 20 514 1420
Email
Employees45
Founded9/03
DescriptionWeb-based messenger service

Offices

Global Headquarters
Keizersgracht 585
Amsterdam, 1017 DR, NLD
US Headquarters
555 Post St.
San Francisco, CA, 94102
USA
UK office

People

COO, Co-founder
Co-founder
CEO, Co-founder
VP Products & Marketing
VP, Worldwide Sales
CFO
Director Mobile
Director Carrier Relations

Former People

Sales and Channel Development

Funding

Total€11.5M
Series A, 10/06
Lowland Capital Partners
€5M
Series B, 2/08
Prime Technology Ventures
€6.5M

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eBuddy

eBuddy is a web-based messenger service that allows you to chat with your MSN, Yahoo and AIM contacts on one page. They also have a mobile browser for accessing your contacts on your mobile. eBuddy doesn’t require any downloads, so you can easily get to your contacts on other computers.

Milestones

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    eBuddy added Jan-Joost Kraal as VP Products & Marketing. (10/08)
    Posted 12/29/09 at 12:49am
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    eBuddy — Former Google Executive, Marc Duijndam Joins eBuddy (8/21/08)
    Posted 8/21/08 at 12:43pm
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    eBuddy — eBuddy Processing 1 billion Messages per Month for 2M Unique Mobile Users (4/30/08)
    Posted 7/28/08 at 9:53am
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    eBuddy added Jonie Oostveen as Director Carrier Relations. (3/17/08)
    Posted 12/28/09 at 1:29pm
  • Dollar
    eBuddy received €6.5M in Series B funding. (2/5/08)
    Posted 3/21/08 at 11:11pm
  • Dollar
    eBuddy received €5M in Series A funding. (10/26/06)
    Posted 7/25/07 at 3:54am
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    eBuddy added Jan-Joost Kraal as Director Mobile. (5/06)
    Posted 12/29/09 at 12:48am
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    eBuddy added Onno Bakker as COO, Co-founder. (2004)
    Posted 7/25/07 at 4:06am
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    eBuddy added Jan-Joost Rueb as CEO, Co-founder.
    Posted 7/25/07 at 4:06am
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    eBuddy added Paulo Taylor as Co-founder.
    Posted 7/25/07 at 4:05am
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    Posted 6/26/08 at 1:29pm
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    eBuddy added Marc Duijndam as Sales and Channel Development.
    Posted 8/21/08 at 12:40pm
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    eBuddy added Rogier van den Heuvel as VP, Worldwide Sales.
    Posted 12/22/08 at 8:46am

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eBuddy Messenger

Websiteebuddy.com
Blogblog.ebuddy.com
StageLive
Launch DateJuly 25, 2003
Tags instant-messaging, im, mobile-instant-messaging, mobile-messenger, web-messenger

eBuddy is web and mobile messaging for everyone, everywhere and is available in over 30 languages.

eBuddy created the world’s first independent web browser-based IM service in 2003 and extended the service to mobile in June 2007.

eBuddy processes over 11 billion messages per month and enables more than 30 million unique monthly visitors to chat in one, aggregated interface across all major IM networks including AIM, Facebook Chat, Gtalk, ICQ, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo!

eBuddy is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile IM services with over 10 million unique monthly mobile users, and offers four, free mobile IM versions: eBuddy for iPhone and iPod Touch, eBuddy for Android, eBuddy Mobile Messenger (J2ME) and eBuddy Lite Messenger (mobile Web).

eBuddy’s premium native application, eBuddy Pro for iPhone and iPod Touch with additional exclusive features is for sale via Apple’s App Store.

eBuddy received the 2008 Crunchies Award for Best International Company, and was a finalist for Best Mobile Application EMEA at the 2009 TechCrunch Europas Awards. eBuddy is a finalist for the 2009 Mashable Open Web Awards (OWA) in the Best Mobile App category.

Based in Amsterdam, London and San Francisco, eBuddy is privately held company backed by Prime Technology Ventures and Lowland Capital Partners.

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Above: eBuddy Pro for iPhone and iPod Touch-push screen
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Above: eBuddy Pro for iPhone and iPod Touch - banner
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Above: eBuddy Pro - buddy list
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Sources

  1. EBUDDY Secures 5 Million Euro In Series A Funding (ebuddy.com) []
  2. eBuddy secures €6.5 million Series B funding (ebuddy.com) []
  3. Hungry mobile IM users consume 5M downloads in first year eBuddy processing 1 billion messages per month for 2M unique mobile users (news.yahoo.com) []
  4. Former Google Executive, Marc Duijndam Joins eBuddy (news.yahoo.com) []

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