| Website | fon.com |
| Blog | fon.com/en/extern... |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 677923012 |
| Employees | |
| Description | Wireless networking community |
| Total | €34M |
| Series A, 2/06 Index Ventures Sequoia Capital Skype | €18M |
| Series B, 3/07 Index Ventures Sequoia Capital | €10M |
| Series C, 4/08 Coral Capital Management Allen & Company British Telecom Martin Varsavsky Joi Ito | €6M |
fon is a startup wifi company attempting to turn your business or home wifi router into a link in a network of publicly accessible hotspots. Users who opt to share their WiFi with others and become “Foneros” will gain access to the rest of the free Fon Network. Although ISP’s have traditionally banned the resale of sharing of their broadband connection, Fon believes it is in the interest of and ISP to offer their clients entrance into a free network of hotspots.
Some ISPs are believers including Time Warner Cable, British Telecom and Neuf (France) which all endrose Fon’s WiFi sharing across their networks. Fon’s currently has the largest free hotspot network and will continue to grow assuming more partnerships materialize.
Fon has a slew of big investors which include strategic investors as well as venture funds: Google, Skype, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Excite and Digital Garage. British Telecom, with whom Fon has a distribution partnership, is also an investor in the company. The Company has raised around $35 million.
| Website | twitxr.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | February 1, 2008 |
Twitxr is a Twitter-like service, launched by FON Labs in February 2008, that allows the user to post a brief text message and photo. They’ve also created software which allows direct posting from the iPhone.
