Index Ventures

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Index Ventures is a venture capital investment fund based in Geneva,Switzerland. Funds currently under management are believed to be about 500M Euros. [1] The main areas the fund invests in are Information Technology and Life Sciences [2]. The fund's most famous investments have been in Skype[3], MySQL, and Betfair[4].

Although based in Europe and focussed mainly (but not exclusively) on investing there, Index is considered to have the investment philosophy of a typical Silicon Valley venture capitalist and to have unusually strong business relations in Silicon Valley for a European investor. [5]

In 2007 Daniel Rimer, a partner at Index, was picked for the prestigious Forbes Magazine Midas List of the world's 25 best deal makers in venture capital.

[edit] Companies And Products Invested In

Rebtel

Skype

Stardoll

MySQL

Betfair

Perplex City

Glassesdirect

Viagogo

Spot Runner

Joost[6]

[edit] Company website

http://www.indexventures.com