{"id":5445,"date":"2007-04-25T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T09:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/eqo-funding.html"},"modified":"2007-04-25T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T09:51:28","slug":"eqo-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/eqo-funding.html","title":{"rendered":"EQO Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The investment environment for VoIP is pretty hot with news of funding two days in a row. Of course two data points a trend does not make but there seems to be lots of optimism left in certain segments of IP communications. Yesterday there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/voip-peering-investment.html\">VoIP peering funding<\/a> announcement and today it is about mobile VoIP. EQO is a mobile solution for users of Skype, AIM, MSN Messenger and a number of other IP communications platforms. The company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/04\/25\/2553432.htm\">received<\/a> $9 million in series B funding. The financing round was led by Ventures West and included investments from existing investors GrowthWorks and BDC Capital.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=8837&amp;akst_action=share-this\">See Gigaom&rsquo;s take<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mapleleaftwo.com\/eqo-communications-raises-9m\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mapleleaftwo.com\/eqo-communications-raises-9m\/\">See MapleLeaf 2.0<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investment environment for VoIP is pretty hot with news of funding two days in a row. Of course two data points a trend does not make but there seems to be lots of optimism left in certain segments of IP communications. Yesterday there was a VoIP peering funding announcement and today it is about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,163,199,186,188,189,203,118,177,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}