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Saul Klein
- Sectors:
- Applications, Communications, Consumer, Ecommerce, Internet, Media, Open source, Services, Social networks
- Contact:
, Skype: saulklein- Location:
- UK
- Assistant:
- Kala Naidoo -
Saul joined the London office Index as a Partner in February 2007. He currently serves on the boards of Alertme, Chartbeat, Erply, GlassesDirect, MyHeritage, Seedcamp, Songkick and Soluto.
Saul brings over 15 years of experience successfully building and exiting companies in both the US and Europe as an entrepreneur, operator and seed investor. Most recently he was the co-founder and original CEO at what is now Lovefilm International (Amazon) and part of the original executive team at Skype (eBay).
Saul loves working with seed and early stage companies and is a passionate believer that Europe is only scratching the surface in terms of its potential for entrepreneurs to create great startups. To support this vision, since 1999 he has been a Founding Partner of The Accelerator Group (TAG) and in 2007 he also started Seedcamp and OpenCoffee Club, which is now active in over 90 cities around the world.
For more info, you can follow Saul on Twitter or check out his not very active blog at http://localglo.be/
Current focus
- Sectors:
- Applications, Communications, Consumer, Ecommerce, Internet, Media, Open source, Services, Social networks
Contact details
- Email:
- Skype:
- saulklein
- Location:
- UK
- Assistant:
- Kala Naidoo -
Skype (eBay)
Skype is a global P2P telephony company that is changing voice communications by moving voice calling to the Internet. Acquired by eBay in October 2005.
Details
- Contact:
- Danny Rimer, Saul Klein, Mike Volpi
- Website:
- www.skype.com
- Status:
- Exited
- Sector(s):
- Communications, Consumer
- Stage(s)
- Early stage
- Geography:
- US
News
- Sep 12 2005
- eBay to Acquire Skype
- Mar 15 2004
- SKYPE Closes 'B' Round Funding from Top Venture Capitalists