Which internet company was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995?
"Wikimedia Foundation, and at the same time, Matt Halpin of Omidyar Network was appointed to Wikimedia's board of directors. Omidyar Network Omidyar Network is a self-styled ""philanthropic investment firm,"" composed of a foundation and an impact investment firm. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, Omidyar Network reports it has committed more than $992 million to nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies across multiple investment areas, including Consumer Internet & Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Governance & Citizen Engagement, and Property Rights. Composed of a 501(c)(3) and a Limited Liability Company (LLC), Omidyar Network is structured to"
"Online SAS Online SAS (also known as Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a 100% subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Dedibox and Scaleway brands, domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Iliad datacenter. The company is the second player in his domain in France with over Gb/s of Internet traffic. In 1999 Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services In August 2002 the domain"
"in 2016 by Private Equity International. In 2017, LeapFrog was ranked fifth on ""Fortune"" magazine's 2017 Change the World list. LeapFrog Investments LeapFrog Investments is a private investment firm that invests in high-growth financial services and healthcare companies in emerging markets. The firm's investments have an annual growth rate of more than 40% and its companies reach approximately 130 million consumers, primarily in Africa and Asia. LeapFrog has attracted over $1 billion from global investors since inception, including funds from investors such as Prudential Financial, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, TIAA-CREF and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network. LeapFrog was founded"
"on his links at their weathermap and is present at the following Internet Exchange Points: France-IX, Equinix-IX, AMS-IX et Neutral Internet Exchange Online SAS Online SAS (also known as Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a 100% subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Dedibox and Scaleway brands, domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Iliad datacenter. The company is the second player in his domain in France with over Gb/s"
"Africa Internet Group which has $469 million in 4 Rounds from six investors transferred six of its companies to Yaba in 2014. In same 2014 BudgIT received $400,000 grant from Omidyar. Mid 2016, Andela – a Nigerian-founded talent accelerator for programmers that has campuses in Lagos, Nairobi and New York – received $24 million in investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2015 Hotels.ng, which claims to be the largest hotel booking site in Nigeria secured $1.2 million in funding from Omidyar Network to expand its listings across Africa. A number of startups including Iroko – the biggest digital retailer"
"markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. It was established in 2004 by Omidyar and his wife, Pam. The organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $992 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including Property Rights, Governance & Citizen Engagement, Education, Financial Inclusion and Consumer & Internet Mobile. In 2010, he and his wife established, along with Richard Branson and the Nduna Foundation (founded by Amy Robbins), Enterprise"
"Haladjian bought the company he was working for, and in 1999, he sold all his Minitel businesses to the Neocom Multimedia Group. On 8 June 1994, Rafi Haladjian founded FranceNet, one of the first Internet companies in France. FranceNet offers dialup Internet Connection using the POTN as well as access through the French voice services network (Audiotel) allowing users to pay by the minute without signing for a subscription. He also created FranceWeb, an online directory of the French Web allowing all the new users of the network to find their way on the Internet. In 1995, he diversified his"
"LeapFrog Investments LeapFrog Investments is a private investment firm that invests in high-growth financial services and healthcare companies in emerging markets. The firm's investments have an annual growth rate of more than 40% and its companies reach approximately 130 million consumers, primarily in Africa and Asia. LeapFrog has attracted over $1 billion from global investors since inception, including funds from investors such as Prudential Financial, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, TIAA-CREF and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network. LeapFrog was founded in January 2007 by Andrew Kuper and officially launched in 2008 by former US President Bill Clinton who endorsed the"
"the U.S., according to a report by the Iranian Studies group at MIT. Iranian-Americans have founded, or hold senior leadership positions at, many major US companies, including Fortune 500 companies such as GE, Intel, Citigroup, Verizon, Motorola, Google, and AT&T. Pierre Omidyar, founder/CEO of eBay is of Iranian origin, as well as is the founder of Bratz, Isaac Larian. Hamid Biglari is Vice-Chairman of Citicorp. Bob Miner was the co-founder of Oracle Corporation and the producer of Oracle's relational database management system. In 2006, Anousheh Ansari, co-founder of the Ansari X Prize, became the first female tourist in space. Ansari"
"Pierre Lamond on such investments as Square, Groupme (acquired by Skype), and Ness Technologies. He has served on the boards of such companies as Ness Technologies and Storify. Ramy Adeeb Ramy Adeeb is the founder and CEO of social curation platform Snip.it and is a former venture capitalist investor in start-ups such as Square and Groupme. Originally from Egypt, Adeeb founded Snip.it in spring 2011 while looking for a way to share relevant information regarding the Arab Spring uprisings. As of Sept. 2012, Snip.it had about 20,000 registered users who create content and 100,000 who browse it. Average time spent"
"base of the economic spectrum, that often overlooked by financiers due to their small economic of scale and high level of risk incurred. Omidyar Network is an investment funds that believe that, with given opportunity to the capable people, they create positive return to the world. Omidyar focused on 5 keys areas for their investment: Consumer Internet and Mobile, Education, Financial Inclusion, Government Transparency, and Property Rights. Shell Foundation is an independent charity established by the Shell Group in 2000. They helps to tackle some of the social and environmental issue that related to the energy sector through application of"
"McKinsey, before leaving to join Courage Capital, a global special- situations hedge fund, to lead their India tech and investing efforts After Courage Capital, Sinha joined Omidyar Network, founded by Pam and Pierre Omidyar. Till December 2013, he was a partner at ON and the Managing Director of Omidyar Network India Advisors. He also served on Omidyar Network's five - member global executive committee. During his time there, Omidyar's India portfolio grew to over 35 companies and organizations totaling investments worth over $100 million. He also helped in funding the Indian Impact Investing Council. Sinha has served on the boards"
"as partners: Comat Technologies, Creative Commons, Digg, DonorsChoose, Endeavor, Federated Media Publishing, GlobalGiving, Goodmail, GuideStar, Linden Lab (developer of Second Life global virtual community), Media Development Investment Fund Meetup, Metaweb, ModestNeeds, Opportunity International, PRBC, Prosper, Rappler, SeaChange Capital Partners, Seesmic, Socialtext, Sunlight Foundation, Virgin Money, Wikia, World of Good. In 2017, Omidyar Network together with AVINA Americas and Avina Foundation founded the Latin American Alliance for Civic Technology (ALTEC) to invest in and support the development in Latin America of civic technology platforms and related scalable technologies. In 2009, the Omidyar Network donated $2 million over two years to the"
"Internet network machines. The first real public service provider was WorldNet which opened in February 1994 at the Computer Associates Expo. FranceNet, founded by Rafi Haladjian, launched its service in June 1994. These were followed by order Calvacom, Internet Way and Imaginet. AOL was a great success between 1996 and 2000 through its widely distributed, free CDs, and with attractive prices for low speeds. On 3 December 2008, France had 16.3 million broadband connections, of which 94% are ADSL subscribers. This makes France the second largest ADSL market in Europe. At the end of 2005, 30% of those DSL lines"
"(ENSTA ParisTech) in 1990. In 1995, he co-founded BaBeL@STaL, one of the first French digital agencies, with Philippe Feinsilber. In 2000, he was a member of the Kasskooye.com team, a then popular French website that parodied the new economy, under the pseudonym of Igmar Andersen. In 2003, he co-founded Violet with Rafi Haladjian, which created Nabaztag, an interactive and internet-connected object launched in 2005 and the RFID reader Mir:ror. He's listed as inventor on 2 patents related to ambient and connected devices. In 2009, he co-founded reaDIYmate with Marc Chareyron . The reaDIYmate DIY kits were successfully launched and manufactured"
"of $4.7 million in the United States. The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager, Mary Lou Song, in 1997 to interest the media, which were not interested in the company's previous explanation about wanting to create a ""perfect market"". This was revealed in Adam Cohen's book, ""The Perfect Store"" (2002), and confirmed by eBay. After eBay went public, both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires. eBay's target share price of $18 was all but ignored as the price went to $53.50 on the first"
"Oasis500 and Eureeca in Abjjad's crowdinvestment campaignPage text. furthermore, Al-Aan TV interviewed Ms.Hylooz in ArabNet in Dubai, 2013. Abjjad has been mentioned on Oasis500 website as one of the five startups which the company funded and gained different prizes. Wamda, Mediame and crowdfundinsider have discussed Abjjad's experience in the corwdinvestment on Eureeca. And the expert in the Arabic literature in English, M. Lynx Qualey, has interviewed Eman Hylooz in March 2013 to talk about Abjjad's story of success, how it differs from other social networks and what are its future plans. Abjjad Abjjad is the first Arabic social network for"
"three children, and lives in Paris. Xavier Niel Xavier Niel (born 25 August 1967) is a French billionaire businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry and best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and Mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand (France's second-largest ISP, and third mobile operator). He is also co-owner of the newspaper ""Le Monde"",<ref name=""http://www.ft.com/""></ref> and co-owner of the rights of the song ""My Way"" and owner of Monaco Telecom. He is deputy chairman and chief strategy officer for Iliad. As of April 2018, his net worth is estimated"
"Hooman Radfar Hooman Radfar (born July 14, 1980, London, England) is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is a partner at Expa, a San Francisco-based start-up studio. Previously he was co-founder and served as CEO of AddThis. AddThis provides the most widely used marketing tools for web site creators. According to web measurement firm ComScore, in 2015 the platform was ranked #1 in AdFocus, reaching over 97% of users in the United States ahead of Google, Yahoo and Facebook. According to TechCrunch, AddThis was purchased by Oracle in 2016 for around $200 million. At the time of the Iranian Revolution,"
"Xavier Niel Xavier Niel (born 25 August 1967) is a French billionaire businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry and best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and Mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand (France's second-largest ISP, and third mobile operator). He is also co-owner of the newspaper ""Le Monde"",<ref name=""http://www.ft.com/""></ref> and co-owner of the rights of the song ""My Way"" and owner of Monaco Telecom. He is deputy chairman and chief strategy officer for Iliad. As of April 2018, his net worth is estimated at US$6.1 billion. Niel started early"
"group Ybrant Digital. After the sale fell through, Experian announced in October of that year that it had completed the sale of PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills, and ClassesUSA.com to the management team of those businesses for an undisclosed amount. In June 2015, Connexity (formerly Shopzilla) announced it had purchased PriceGrabber, Inc. for an undisclosed amount. PriceGrabber PriceGrabber.com is a price-comparison shopping site and distributed content commerce service founded in 1999 by former CEOs Kamran Pourzanjani and Tamim Mourad. The company partners with merchants, retailers, and sellers to provide information on a wide range of products. PriceGrabber.com was the first comparison-shopping engine to"
"product division into a subsidiary known as CommerceServer.net. In November 2013, Sitecore acquired CommerceServer.net. In August 2014, Sitecore released Sitecore Commerce Server 11. Microsoft Commerce Server Microsoft Commerce Server is a Microsoft product for building e-commerce systems using Microsoft .NET technology. In 1996, Microsoft purchased the core software that formed the basis for the Commerce Server product line from eShop. eShop was co-founded by Pierre Omidyar, one of the founders of eBay. In 1997, the software was re-branded to Microsoft Merchant Server, then Microsoft Site Server, eventually being renamed to Microsoft Commerce Server in 2000. Initially released in 2000, Commerce"
"Pan-Africa Fund, a seed-stage technology fund, and Omidyar Network, the investment vehicle of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. In 2015 Mark made the Forbes list of 30 youngest entrepreneurs in Africa. He has also been nominated for the Nigeria Future awards amongst others. On April 8 2018, Essien married Jenni Naiaretti, who is also a developer. In 2016, Hotels.ng co-invested with Jason Njoku and Spark in OgaVenue, an events booking platform. Mark Essien serves as a director on the board of OgaVenue. Mark is a frequent TedX speaker. He has delivered talks on Leveraging networks to build a business, and how"
"million dollars. CVidya cVidya Networks is a provider of big data analytics products for communications and digital service providers. cVidya’s market includes business protection and business growth, including revenue assurance, fraud management, marketing analytics and data monetization. The company has 300 employees in 18 countries and has over 150 customers. cVidya's investors include Battery Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Hyperion, StageOne, Saints Capital and Plenus. cVidya was founded in 2001 by Alon Aginsky in the US and saw projects at Telecom Italia and Bezeq within its first years. Between 2004–2010 cVidya became one of the leading vendors in the Revenue Assurance domain"
"Iliad SA, Xavier Niel launched in 1996 the 1st reversed directory service on the Minitel. This service was responsible for 1 million euros of revenue per year for Iliad until the end of the minitel in France in 2012. Niel remains Iliad’s majority shareholder, holding 63.93% of the share capital. In 1999, he created Free, a French Internet service provider. The name came from the fact that modem access was really free, which caused some stir among other (non-free) French Internet providers, as well as it raised some questions about Free's business model. In 2002, Free launched a broadband package"
"Alexandre Taillefer Alexandre Taillefer is a Canadian entrepreneur from Quebec. He is the founder and managing partner of XPND Capital, a private equity firm. At 21, Taillefer became an entrepreneur, founding, in 1993, Intellia, an e-commerce service provider later bought by Quebecor, the largest media conglomerate in Quebec. Taillefer worked at Quebecor for five years (until 2000), where he lead the online division. He completed a number of mergers, including the merger of Informission with Intellia to create Nurun, now owned by Publicis. In 2007, he co-founded Stingray Digital, a provider of musical products and services, now one of the"
"talks with international investors to increase the size of the round up to $5–6 million. Aventurres representatives sits at the boards at Jooble and Depositphotos companies. Andrey Kolodyuk Andrey Kolodyuk is a serial entrepreneur and venture capital investor. He started his entrepreneurial career in New York in 1992 and eventually has founded and built over 10 companies in IT, telecom, internet and media with $1 Billion total revenues. In 2008 he exited from previous companies and started a new one Divan.TV – one of the pioneers of TV streaming OTT service for ethnic groups available in 200 countries worldwide. In"
"taxi companies. Alexandre Taillefer Alexandre Taillefer is a Canadian entrepreneur from Quebec. He is the founder and managing partner of XPND Capital, a private equity firm. At 21, Taillefer became an entrepreneur, founding, in 1993, Intellia, an e-commerce service provider later bought by Quebecor, the largest media conglomerate in Quebec. Taillefer worked at Quebecor for five years (until 2000), where he lead the online division. He completed a number of mergers, including the merger of Informission with Intellia to create Nurun, now owned by Publicis. In 2007, he co-founded Stingray Digital, a provider of musical products and services, now one"
"Akamai, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo!, Zayo Group, CANARIE, CBC, CenturyLink, CloudFlare, Cogeco, Digital Ocean, Distributel, Eastlink, Fastly, iTeraTEL, Limelight Networks, LinkedIn, Microsoft, ORION, OVH, Primus Canada, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Stackpath, TekSavvy, Twitch, Frontier Networks, Freedom Mobile and Vianet Inc. Compared to commercial Internet transit pricing in Canada, the per-megabit cost of being a typical TorIX peer works out to cents-on-the-dollar, versus tens of dollars per megabit. According to Job Snijders' IXP Pricing List, TorIX is one of the lowest cost IXP's in the entire world. Most commercial Internet transit agreements require a minimum traffic commitment level, which the customer must"
"Outnet. A Dubai-based entity will feature local sales, marketing, customer care, a PR team, a new regional distribution center, and the development of a localized offering including Arabic-language customer care and content, as well as local currency and payment methods. In July 2016, he also led two investor groups in buying a combined 16.45% stake in Dubai-based courier Aramex for approximately $250 million. Alabbar's move was part of a plan to build an e-commerce platform across the Arab world. Alabbar was a lead investor in Boson Ventures Corporation, which purchased the entire 9.9 percent share that Aramex founder Fadi Ghandour"
"by developing telecommunication and data services and embarked at a young age on an entrepreneurial career soon after his father gave him a Sinclair ZX81 computer as a birthday present. At 19, he successfully created then sold his first company, a Minitel (a French forerunner of the internet) service company. This minitel-site provided sex oriented chat services. In 1995, he invested in the first Internet Service Provider in France, World-NET, created the previous year by Sébastien Socchard, Philippe Langlois and Pierre Séguret. This company was sold the year before the internet bubble burst. After taking over a company subsequently renamed"
"started his first company, Obongo with Samir Palnitkar in 1999. Obongo was an online identity management service offering single sign-on, eWallet and email spam control. It soon attracted a lot of attention from the top silicon valley investors and was funded by Sequoia Capital. Obongo generated a reach of over 40 million users before getting acquired by AOL in 2001. As a senior executive at AOL, Rawat led the teams driving AOL's online commerce and mobile strategy. In 2003 Rawat co-founded another company, AirTight Networks. AirTight provides secure Wi-Fi solutions and is being used by hundreds of businesses such as"
"tech projects are donor recruitment platform DonorUA, Ukrainian companies' data and court register monitoring service Open Data Bot, participatory budgeting platform ""Громадський проект"". The latter accounts for over 3 million users. In 2017, to foster the growth of civic tech initiatives, Ukrainian NGO SocialBoost launched 1991 Civic Tech Center, a dedicated community space in country's capital, Kyiv. The space opened following a $480,000 grant from Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Canadian Digital Service (CDS) was launched in 2017, as part of an attempt to bring better IT to the Canadian government. The CDS"