Social software service Wakoopa gets second financial injection

Written on June 2, 2008 – 10:00 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

The guys from our sponsor Wakoopa had a great weekend. Beers, champagne and euphoric tweets dominated the last couple of days for CEO Robert Gaal, CTO Wouter Broekhof, and senior developer Menno van der Sman. How come?

Wouter, Robert, Gert-Jan Bennen (DCIF), Coen from HenQ, Menno & Barend van den Brande (BBV)

Well, these three fellas traveled to Rotterdam last Friday to sign an incredible stack of papers with Big Bang Ventures and HENQ Invest who gave Wakoopa a second financial boost. The Wakoopians will use this money for attracting a Ruby developer, interface designer, desktop developer and some international partners for further expansion.

It has been a year now since Wouter and Robert started their social software service which can be best described as the Last.fm for software. They’ve attracted 30.000 somewhat geeky early adopters and tracked 250 million hours of their software usage. That valuable data says a lot about the future of software, so it isn’t that surprising that Belgium Big Bang Ventures and Dutch Henq Invest have funded Wakoopa.

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

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11 comments/trackbacks to “Social software service Wakoopa gets second financial injection”

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By Steven Kruyswijk on Jun 2, 2008

Gefeliciflapstaart gasten!!

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By Mathijs van Abbe on Jun 2, 2008

Congrats guys! Spend it wise :)

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By richard on Jun 2, 2008

gefeliciteerd!

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By Boris on Jun 2, 2008

Great news! Congratulations and good luck with everything!

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By Jeroen Bakker on Jun 2, 2008

Congratulations, really cool news!!

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By Patrick de Laive on Jun 2, 2008

Congratulations! If one company deserved a round of funding it is you guys.
Now get back to work :) (well after a good glass of cava)

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By Mike Butcher on Jun 2, 2008

That’s nice, but HOW MUCH MONEY did they get?

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By Chris Obdam on Jun 2, 2008

Congrats guys!

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By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on Jun 2, 2008

@Mike the official statement is that they’ve received between 0.5 to 1 million euros.

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