From: Josh Cohen (josh@corp.avogadro.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 00:57:01 PDT
PR On Avogadro, a wireless messaging startup with ties to FoRK...
as well as Ignition, a VC with strong MSFT ties..
From the "official press release"
http://www.avogadro.com/press/Avoreleasefinalv2.3.htm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 16, 2000
FORMER MICROSOFT INTERNET ARCHITECTS LAUNCH AVOGADRO
Avogadro's first round funding, totaling 7ドル.5 million, was led by Ignition
Corporation.
Avogadro was Ignition's first investment, and the third to be officially
announced.
Steve Hooper, former CEO of AT&T Wireless and NEXTLINK Communications, has
joined
Avogadro's board. Other investors of the company include Rob Glaser, founder
and CEO of
RealNetworks, Arthur van Hoff, co-creator of Java and CTO of Marimba, Max
Metral,
founder of Firefly and CTO of PeoplePC, Mike Slade, retired Chairman and CEO
of
Starwave (Infoseek); and Neal Stephenson, noted author and futurist.
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/igni16.shtml
"The brains behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer have a new project --
it's a company called Avogadro, and its founders say that the technology
they are developing will help connect the wired and wireless Internet."
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB971650540699084601.htm
"At least a half-dozen high-tech companies have been spawned by groups of
former
Microsoft employees. The latest example: Avogadro Inc., a Seattle
wireless-infrastructure start-up founded by former Microsoft Web-browser
whiz Thomas Reardon and a small team of his former colleagues. Monday,
Avogadro will announce that it has closed a 7ドル.5 million round of financing
led by Ignition. Mr. Reardon worked for Mr. Silverberg for a time and calls
him and John Ludwig, another Ignition partner and former Microsoft
executive,
"people I swear lifetime allegiance to." "
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001016/tc/ignition_avogadro_dc_1.html
Wireless Backer Ignition to Fund Mobile Net Firm
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Ignition Corp., a firm launched by several Microsoft
(NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) veterans to cultivate wireless ventures, revealed on
Monday it is funding Avogadro, a company that is working on ways to merge
service on cell phones with the everyday, PC-based Web.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/xseap/20001016/lo/avogadro_launch_1.html
Ex-MSN Strategist Launches Avogadro
SEATTLE (AP) - Former Microsoft strategist Thomas Reardon is starting a firm
called Avogadro that develops technology for helping computer users move
back and forth between wireless devices and desktop computers.
The new company has obtained 7ドル.5 million for its first round of financing,
mostly from Ignition Corp., a 7-month-old venture capital firm that focuses
on new wireless technologies.
More information, and these references and more at
http://www.avogadro.com/press/
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