June 2, 2006; 05:18 AM Pageflakes, a leading player in the rapidly-growing personalised
internet startpage market, announces its first round of investment by
Benchmark Capital Europe, the top-tier venture capital firm behind
eBay, Betfair and Setanta. The investment will be used to accelerate
technology platform and product development, with the goal of
establishing Pageflakes as the world’s leading personalised startpage.
Pageflakes (www.pageflakes.com),
a recent winner of the prestigious Web 2.0 award, provides a convenient
one-stop access-point to a user’s favourite web tools such as search,
mail, blogs, news feeds, Del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos and
numerous other web services and applications. By aggregating these
services onto one page, Pageflakes saves its users the effort of
manually checking dozens of sites for updates every day.
Pageflakes differentiates itself with its open platform which is
attracting hundreds of developers worldwide. This means that any
developer, anywhere in the world, can write a “flake” - a web
application such as a To-Do-List Manager, an Address Book or a Weather
Module - and make it available to every Pageflakes user. Thanks to its
growing community of developers, Pageflakes has been adding almost one
new flake every day since its launch in March and now has 75 unique
services on the site.
"We're delighted to partner with Benchmark Capital at this exciting
early stage in our development," said Christoph Janz, co-founder and
CEO of Pageflakes. "Their backing will boost the roll-out of Pageflakes
and help make us THE web-entry point for millions of users."
"Personalised startpages will benefit from several important current
trends and developments within Web 2.0, such as the rise of AJAX, RSS
and open APIs", said Johan Brenner, General Partner from Benchmark
Capital. "We believe Pageflakes will help users gather and sort the
clutter of applications and content on the internet. We are excited to
join this rapidly growing company and help drive its success.”
Ole Brandenburg
Phone: +61.7.32768112
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