Skype, also a P2P enabler, became the VC feel-good story of the year when eBay purchased it in September in a deal that could be worth up to $4.1 billion if certain benchmarks are met.
Bessemer Venture Partners and Draper Richards were original investors in Skype. Draper Fisher Jurvetson participated in a second fundraising round for the company. The firms have teamed again to back Revver, which has developed a technology platform that helps the producers of amateur digital videos share the content online and also generate revenue from their efforts.
So what’s the connection? Perhaps the opportunity to generate hefty advertising revenue from P2P networks, whose potential is untapped.
"The explosion of self-published, popular-content downloaded via e-mails from friends and colleagues, instant messages, or discovered on various Web sites or P2P networks, presents a massive market opportunity," Steven Starr, Revver founder and CEO, said in a press release.
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