Another i5invest project is just before launch!Check it out, it’s name is tripwolf.com - hungry for travel.It’s a social travel guide, use your facebook login to be one of the first to test it out:www.tripwolf.com!…a lot of new features and content is currently updated - stay tuned!

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There is a big hype in the US around Virtual Worlds. Virtual Worlds Companies Funded from October 2006 to October 2007 include Club Penguin (acquired by Disney), Doppelganger (ventured by Greycroft Partners and Charles River Ventures and Prism), Double Fusion (Norwest Venture Partners, Time Warner, Accel), Electric Sheep Company (Gladwyne Partners and CBS), Emergent (Jerusalem […]

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Today www.123people.com launched!Beta test accounts are available for non-European markets!

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Founded in 2004, MOO is a printing company based in UK. They print beautiful products, using images you’ve uploaded directly, or designs from our designer galleries. A product, I like and I will try it out at the upcoming XMAS.As there are clear incomes & costs associated with one order, it’s a good model to […]

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I’ve received more than one hundred European investment proposals of 2nd/3rd tier social networks within the last 8 weeks. Most of them are universal social networks - trying to compete against facebook, studiVZ, myspace, etc.In my understanding the don’t have a chance against the established players, as most of them don’t differ in their feature […]

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“The Truffle 100 for 2007 Listing of Europe’s 100 largest software firms is out and online. The good news is that 32 Euro software vendors have revenues greater than €100M (up from 30 one year ago).The bad news is that all the Truffle 100 combined is generating less annual sales than Microsoft, and not quite […]

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fatfoogoo.com is around for a couple of month and recently (early September) opened for public beta.The company is based in Vienna (Austria) and run by the two Austrians Martin Herdina and Daniel Petri, both former ucpmorgen/qPass/amdocs guys.fatoogoo combines gaming, social networking and commerce, all in one platform - brings buyers and sellers of virtual gaming […]

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here it is, hot news about hot European startups: i5invest business incubator blog

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A brief overview about a German, a Luxembourg and a Spanish Digg Clones as I’ve heard about some more European digg clone investment requests in the last couple of weeks - so here is just a abstract of a market review.German: yigg.deGerman (Munich) startup founded January 2006 with 2,2 mio unique users and 12.000 registered […]

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United States Venture Capital MarketVenture capitalists invested some $6.6 billion in 797 deals in U.S. during the third quarter of 2006, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data by Thomson Financial.A recent National Venture Capital Association survey found that majority (69%) of venture capitalists predict that […]

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“Fueled by plentiful venture capital, plus cheap talent from Eastern Europe, tech entrepreneurs are pulling in U.S.-size profits.” a great BusinessWeek article about the the European tech startup boom. Click here to read it

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A friend of mine was doing a research about most used blogs and generated a Compete statistic. I couldn’t find any other statistic, may it’s helpful for some of you - as it was for me.No URL […]

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