SKYPE GETS $18.8 MILLION

Skype Dials Up $18.8M Series B Round
By VentureWire Staff Reporters

Skype Technologies, a peer-to-peer (P2P) telephone company that enables consumers to make free voice calls using broadband connections that is expected to announce it has raised $18.8 million in a Series B co-led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Index Ventures. The company said that the funds are earmarked for operations and product development.