DIMDIM RAISES $6 MILLION
Top global investors lead Series B, underscore growing demand for free,
easy travel alternatives
BOSTON, MA; July 9, 2008 – Dimdim (www.dimdim.com), the world’s free
open source web meeting company, today announced that it has raised a
global round of $6 million in Series B funding, led by existing investors
Index Ventures, Nexus India Capital, and Draper Richards, out of the US,
Europe, and Asia. This funding consolidates Dimdim’s position as the
leading worldwide alternative to traditional web conferencing providers and
reinforces the value of such solutions especially during challenging
economic conditions. This new funding will enable Dimdim to introduce
additional enhancements and simultaneously expand the reach of its
award-winning software. Dimdim is the world’s first unified
communications platform created for and with the support of the open
source community and is free to consumers.
“Dimdim has had an incredible ten months since our private launch at
DemoFall 2007. Now more than 500,000 people in more than 180
countries have attended Dimdim Web Meetings,” said DD Ganguly, CEO
and co-founder of Dimdim. “This additional investment from our original
funders, those that invested in companies such as Hotmail, Skype, and
MySQL, proves that Dimdim will democratize unified collaboration just as
their previously funded companies democratized their respective fields.”
“Dimdim is at the forefront of the shift towards open source software,
something that Index has been involved with over many years. We believe
that Dimdim, with its great team and proven disruptive technology, will
fundamentally change the way that people meet and conduct business
online,” added Bernard Dalle, Partner at Index Ventures.
Suvir Sujan, Managing Director at Nexus India Capital Advisors says,
“Dimdim challenges the traditional approach to the way that software is
developed and the way that it is sold. Dimdim’s new model has been
created for the benefit of the prosumer, and their success in gaining such
widespread adoption and acceptance is proof that the market is ready for
change.”
Bill Draper, founder and General Partner at Draper Richards commented:
“Dimdim will prove that the web conferencing market is ripe for innovation
and disruption. This is why we are enthusiastic investors in the company.”
Dimdim Press Conference
To discuss this funding announcement, Dimdim’s CEO, DD Ganguly will
answer questions via a free Dimdim Web Meeting today, Wednesday, July
9, 2008 at 4:00 PM EDT.
To join this meeting, simply paste the following URL into any web browser
at the time of this meeting.
http://webmeeting.dimdim.com:80/portal/JoinButton.action?confKey=meetfreely
Click this link to add a reminder to Outlook or your iCal application:
About Dimdim
Dimdim is the world’s only free, open source web meeting company.
Dimdim provides a hosted web conferencing service where up to 20 people
can share their desktop, show documents and slides, collaborate, chat, talk
and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for
attendees – all for free. Dimdim also offers more powerful, onsite versions
that can support hundreds and even thousands of attendees per meeting.
To date, the Dimdim Open Source Community Edition has been
downloaded more than 250,000 times. Dimdim is backed by the original
investors in Skype, Hotmail, and MySQL. Dimdim is based in Boston,
Mass., with offices in New Hampshire, Canada and India.
Now the world can meet freely at www.dimdim.com.
Contact for Dimdim
Andrea Heuer, Consort Partners
Email: dimdim@consortpartners.com
Tel: +1 (917) 886-5113