Vinod Khosla Goes iSkoot

Om Malik, Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 6:34 AM PT Comments (3)

Vinod Khosla, who recently set up his own venture firm, Khosla Ventures, has invested $6.2 million in iSkoot, the Cambridge, MA-based Skype-to-mobile extender service, according to PE Hub. Khosla has become quite active lately and has invested in companies like Slide and iLike.

iSkoot has been getting a lot of buzz, especially after cutting a deal with Skype, and 3, a 3G wireless services provider. Soonr and EQO are other applications that act as Skype-to-mobile extenders.

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April 7th, 2008
12:01 AM PT

[...] over wireless with a business model that’s acceptable to carriers. Several vendors, such as iSkoot, IM+ for Skype, Fring and Mobivox, have found ways to access Skype via any carrier; they may not [...]

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November 30th, 2006
8:43 AM PT
Isaac said:

Will they like Anothr.com, another Skype based service?

December 13th, 2006
7:06 PM PT
oscar thomas said:

a first rate idea

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