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Acquired byVodafone
Price€31.5M
Date5/08
TermsCash

General Information

Websitezyb.com
Blogblog.zyb.com
CategoryMobile/Wireless
Email
Employees25
DescriptionMobile Social Networking

Offices

Copenhagen, DNK
Esromgade 15, 1-1
Copenhagen, 2200, DNK

People

CEO and Co-Founder
CTO
Product Director

Acquisitions

imity, 4/08

Funding

Total€3M
Angel
Morten Lund
Series A, 9/06
Nordic Venture Partners
€3M

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ZYB

ZYB is a mobile phone utility and social networking site. ZYB started in 2005 as a european service to provide easy back-up services for mobile phones. Using this information, they have built a social networking platform based upon this data set. Given the importance of mobile phones in Europe, ZYB has built in Twitter like location based functions into the service.

For more information please see this MobileCrunch article from when ZYB launched.

Milestones

  • Handshake
    ZYB was acquired by Vodafone for €31.5M. (5/16/08)
    Posted 5/16/08 at 10:12am
  • Handshake
    ZYB acquired imity. (4/22/08)
    Posted 9/23/09 at 5:02pm
  • Dollar
    ZYB received €3M in Series A funding. (9/1/06)
    Posted 8/21/07 at 9:55pm
  • Dollar
    ZYB received in Angel funding.
    Posted 4/28/08 at 5:16pm
  • Check
    ZYB added Tommy Ahlers as CEO and Co-Founder.
    Posted 8/21/07 at 9:24pm
  • Check
    ZYB added Patrick Verdon as CTO.
    Posted 8/21/07 at 9:22pm
  • Check
    ZYB added Runar Reistrup as Product Director.
    Posted 12/1/08 at 3:58pm

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Screenshots

Products

ZYB | Life

Websitehttps://zyb.com/info/?show=People
StageLive
Tags social-networking

ZYB | Life is a social networking function that connects people using their mobile phone number as a unique identifier. This combines twitter like location finding. As a european based service provider, ZYB’s mobile function is especially powerful.

ZYB screenshot
Above: ZYB | Life Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

ZYB | Phone

Websitehttps://zyb.com/info/?show=Phone
StageLive
Tags mobile-backup

ZYB Phone lets you sync all your phone contacts and personal information from a mobile phone. This is good to backup some ones personal information, ease the transition between phones, and manage your mobile phone contacts online.

ZYB screenshot
Above: ZYB | Phone Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Zyb

Sources

  1. Danish Mobile Social Network ZYB Acquired By Vodafone For €31.5 million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Confirmed: Zyb Bought Imity (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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