Michelangelo Volpi

Index Ventures' Danny Rimer and Mike Volpi to Open Silicon Valley Office

Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2011 at 3:13 am PT

Two of Index Ventures’ high-profile partners–Danny Rimer and Mike Volpi–are opening a new Silicon Valley office for the Europe-based venture firm in September. The move is actually more of a return home for both men, now located in London, who had lived and worked at tech epicenter for much of their careers.

Index Invests $25 Million in Sonos (Plus a Video Interview With VC Mike Volpi)

Kara Swisher in News on March 12, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown had lunch with Michelangelo “Mike” Volpi, the high-profile tech exec who turned into a VC recently at Index Ventures. We also did a video interview about his new life as a an investor, based in London, although Volpi did manage to leave out the big news. That would be a just-inked $25 million investment by Index in wireless home music system maker Sonos, as well as a new board seat there for Volpi.

Silly Skype Soap Opera Finally Canceled

John Paczkowski in News on November 6, 2009 at 7:22 am PT

The fight for Skype has ended. After weeks of nasty legal sparring, the Internet telephony service’s founders agreed to join the investor group purchasing it from EBay and dropped the lawsuit that had threatened to bollocks the deal.

Volpi and Index Ventures Out of Skype Deal, the Lawsuit-Happy Founder Twins In

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2009 at 6:58 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, Index Ventures and Michelangelo Volpi are out of the deal to buy Skype–and their lawsuit-loving nemeses, the founders of the Internet telephony service, are in. More details to come, but it’s sure proof that the legal system, such as it was used, works.

Volpi and Index Smack Back at Skype Founders With Motion to Dismiss (Plus Filings!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 15, 2009 at 3:49 pm PT

The legal high jinks in the contentious battle over the fate of Skype got worse this afternoon, as former Joost CEO Michelangelo Volpi and Index Ventures filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the founders of Skype–Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, via Joost and Joltid–against them. It’s yet another chess move among a group of well-known tech players, who used to work together closely and are now at odds.

Dueling Skype Sides Hire Big Communications Guns

Kara Swisher in News on October 15, 2009 at 10:56 am PT

Perhaps the sides in the ever-escalating war over the Skype deal will work out their differences and settle–which is what should and probably will eventually happen after everyone realizes how stupid all this noisy legal wrangling over the Internet telephony giant is. But that day is decidedly not today, given a pair of recent big-gun PR hires by parties involved.

When Entrepreneurs Attack! All 10 New Skype Lawsuit Filings!

Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2009 at 8:05 am PT

Earlier today, Joost and Joltid attacked! The pair of companies, which are controlled by Skype co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, filed a motion for preliminary injunction against former Joost CEO Michelangelo Volpi and Index Ventures, where Volpi now works as a partner, asking that he not use knowledge or confidential information he got at the video start-up in current dealings with the Internet telephony giant. Here are 10 filings made today related to the injunction!

Exclusive: Skype Founders Keep on Punching–File Injunction Against Volpi and Index

Kara Swisher in News on October 14, 2009 at 7:04 am PT

Joost and Joltid filed a motion for preliminary injunction against former Joost CEO Michelangelo Volpi and Index Ventures, where Volpi now works as a partner, asking that he not use knowledge or confidential information he got at the video start-up in current dealings with Skype. The move is yet another legal attack from the founders of Skype, who were on the losing side of the $2 billion deal to buy the Internet telephony giant from eBay.

Joost a Little Misunderstanding Between Friends? Actually a Knee-Capping–but Please Enjoy the Video From Better Days!

Kara Swisher in News on September 14, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

Revenge is a dish best served cold–except, of course, when one decides to serve it piping hot. And that’s just what part of one of the losing sides of the $2 billion deal to buy Skype from eBay is doing in an unusual attack on Michelangelo Volpi, a well-known tech exec in Silicon Valley. It’s Joost-y, for sure, so step right up to this sorry spectacle.

Skype Deal Drama Gets Joost-ier

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 13, 2009 at 9:09 pm PT

There are growing signs of tension between some of the players behind the $2 billion deal to sell eBay’s Skype to a group of investors. On Friday, Joost, the U.K. Internet video company, said that by shareholder vote it had removed Michelangelo Volpi from its board of directors and from his position as chairman of the company. Volpi, a former high-level Cisco executive, stepped down from Joost’s CEO position in July, and is now a general partner at investment firm Index Ventures.