Niklas Zennström (Swedish: [ˈnɪ̌kːlas ˈsɛ̂nːstrœm] ; born 16 February 1966) is a Swedish entrepreneur and technology investor. He is co-founder of the...

application Skype. In September 2005, he and his business partner Niklas Zennström sold Skype to eBay for $2.6B. Friis has maintained ownership interest...

desktop, mobile, and video game console platforms. Skype was created by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, and four Estonian developers, and first released in August...

Joost (/ˈdʒuːst/) was an Internet TV service, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). During 2007–2008 Joost used peer-to-peer...

with a succession of Skype presidents including Niklas Zennström, Rajiv Dutta, Alex Kazim, Niklas Zennström (again), and Henry Gomez, all holding that title...

with offices in Paris, Berlin and Stockholm. Its founder and CEO is Niklas Zennström, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Skype and Kazaa. It has invested...

Counter-Strike. Music in MP3 format started to gain ground against the CD. Niklas Zennström created the file-sharing service Kazaa which, together with Napster...

Niklas Willén, Swedish conductor Niklas Würzner, German basketball player Niklas Zennström, Swedish entrepreneur Wilhelm Niklas (1887–1957), German academic...

FreedomPop, the company he co-founded in August 2012 with Skype founder Niklas Zennström. FreedomPop was sold in June 2019. In October 2019, Stokols helped...

"Kurzmitteilungen: Delivery Hero, commercetools, chocri, Startup Weekend Nürnberg, Niklas Zennström". Deutsche-startups.de. 14 November 2011. Ternès, Anabel (24 August...

President of Estonia), John Riccitiello (CEO of Electronic Arts), and Niklas Zennström (Founder of Skype). The 2013 pitching competition was won by Weekdone...

million in cash. Rdio was launched by Skype Technologies founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis on August 3, 2010. At the time they had to compete...

as a stay-at-home father, Tallinn developed FastTrack and Kazaa for Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (formerly of Tele2). Kazaa's P2P technology was later...

Interactive including Jaan Tallinn and sold to Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Danish programmer Janus Friis (who were later to create Skype and...

sold to eBay for US$4.1 billion (~$6.15 billion in 2023). Draper and Niklas Zennström appeared in the first Skype video together in 2007 at Stanford University...

continents. 2003: Skype released in August 2003. This was the creation of Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, in cooperation with four Estonian developers. It quickly...

(1876–1953), engineer, inventor, industrialist, co-founder of SKF Niklas Zennström, founder of KaZaA and Skype Confederation of Swedish Enterprise List...

Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners, Peter Thiel and Founders Fund, Niklas Zennström and Atomico Ventures, Mark Pincus, Esther Dyson, Fritz Demopoulos,...

numerous times. In 2003 he helped develop Skype with Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, as well as Heinla and Tallinn. These five also developed Kazaa and...

Speakers included Elon Musk, Shane Smith, Tony Hawk, Drew Houston, and Niklas Zennström. The event was expanded in its scope with a number of side-events launching...

over £4 million ($6 million) in funding for MadBid. Atomico founder Niklas Zennström, best known as a cofounder of Skype, explained the investment by citing...

Westberg) Sweden's first female civil engineer when she graduated in 1928. Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype Hannes Alfvén, Nobel Prize laureate and plasma...

Tallinn, the same team that later created Skype. After selling it to Niklas Zennström from Sweden and Janus Friis from Denmark, it was introduced in March...

Munger and Ronald L. Olson), Club Quarters (Ralph Bahna), and Skype (Niklas Zennström). The university counts several patriarchs of influential business...

streaming music service Rdio, founded by Skype co-founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, declared bankruptcy and sold its assets to Pandora for $75 million...

Atomico, the European venture capital investment fund co-founded by Niklas Zennström, which invested £17 million in the company in March 2016. Since 2015...

several high-profile investors, including Skype and Kazaa co-founder Niklas Zennström and Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of the fashion company H&M. In 2015, the...

smartphone. In October of the same year, they received US$60 million from Niklas Zennström's Atomico investment firm and from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers...

chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts Niklas Zennström (MDNG), founder of Skype, an internet telephony company Kenneth B....

and it is not planned to become open-source software, according to Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype, who responded in 2004 to questions on the Skype...