AAA February 2011 – Page 10

Skype diaspora tune into Rdio

Skype, an online phone operator started by entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has invested in Rdio. Skype’s investment came alongside one of its own original venture capital backers, Mangrove Capital Partners, which is a new investor in Rdio, and Zennstrom and Friis’s new investment company Atomico.

Neuralitic hires boss with B round

BlackBerry Partners Fund, a corporate venturing fund backed by investors including phone maker Research In Motion, reinvested in Neuralitic, alongside venture capital firms BDC Venture Capital, Vertex Venture Capital and Go Capital, while Export Development Canada led the round as a new investor. Neuralitic has now raised $20m in total.