Founder of Skype will invest in mobile messengers

Founder of the Internet-telephony system “Skype” Niklas Zennstr?m says that his current investment Fund “Atomico” intends to invest money in fast-growing mobile messengers and corresponding chat-applications, such as “Snapchat”.

The London investment Fund “Atomico” initially has opened embassies in San-Paolo, Beijing, Istanbul and Tokio. Nowadays the company informed that has gathered from private investors $476M that are planned to be invested in companies, working outside the Silicon Valley. It is important to remember that in the past the Fund “Atomico” invested money in the company “Supercell”, which produces a popular game “Clash of Clans”. Last month the “Supercell” has been estimated in $3B, and most part of its shares has been sold to the Japan operator “Softbank”. The “Atomico” has also invested money in the company “Climate Corp”, which has been purchased for $930M by the company “Monsanto”.

Nowadays Mr. Zennstr?m says that the “Atomico” want once again to appear at the top of innovations, and also to work with focused on products innovators. The “Atomico” says that they believe in the applications, working by the model “Freemium, believe in online micro-transactions and other modern trends. According to his words, new services, in which the “Atomico” will invest funds, can not possess huge audience, such as “Twitter” or “Snapchat” have, however they should be perspective and have a business-model.

“At the moment we do not have great client base, we need companies, which offer an interesting business-model”, - says he.