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Vonage Moving To 88 Acre Campus, Positioned For Growth |
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Vonage Announces Plans To Move Headquarters To Holmdel
May 12, 2005
By Joanne Colella
There’s a new neighbor coming to town, and area residents and officials are more than happy to be rolling out the welcome wagon.
Vonage Holdings Corporation announced in March that they will be establishing their headquarters in Holmdel, moving into the building on Route 520 and Holmdel Road that was formerly the home of Prudential Property Casualty & Insurance. The 358,932 square foot facility, with two stories and set on 88 acres, was sold in 2003. It was ultimately purchased in March by Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, who in turn signed a 12-year, 5-month lease with Vonage.
Vonage is currently the nation’s largest Internet phone service provider, offering local and long distance telephone service using a new technology called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, to customers with a high-speed connection for less cost than other phone services. It has been growing at a very rapid pace since it was founded in January 2001. According to Gerald Maloney, Senior Vice President of Finance, the company started off with a small group of employees and about 7,500 customers in 2002, and saw that number increase to 75,000 in 2003, then 390,000 in 2004. In 2005 alone so far, the customer base has gone from 400,000 as of January 4 to 500,000 as of March 7, and, by mid-April, was about 550,000 in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is expected to reach 1 million lines by the end of the year..
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Posted by vonage on Thursday, May 12 @ 19:38:06 CDT
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Vonage Funding Being Considered On International Markets |
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Vonage Completes US$200 Million Financing
May 10, 2005
By Staff
Vonage Holdings Corporation, has announced the closing of a US$200 million financing round led by Bain Capital, with strong participation from existing investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), 3i, Meritech Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and existing investors. This latest round of financing brings total investment in the company to US$408 million.
Vonage's latest round of financing will be used to accelerate the expansion of service in the US, Canada and the UK, as well as consider launching new international markets. The financing round will also be used to support the development of new innovative offerings.
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Posted by Vonage on Thursday, May 12 @ 01:00:00 CDT
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Vonage Gets Vocal On VoIP |
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Vonage Gets Vocal On VoIP
May 10, 2005
By Tom Sanders
Vonage has received a $200m investment from financial backers which it will use for a UK marketing offensive touting the benefits of voice over IP.
The company offers VoIP services for broadband subscribers, using a VoIP adapter that transfers the internet signal to an analog phone line.
Designed to be similar in use to a traditional landline, the VoIP service is significantly cheaper. Vonage offers unlimited domestic calling for £9.99 per month in the UK and $24.99 in the US.
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Posted by vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 20:44:29 CDT
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Vonage Funding Deal Is The Largest This Decade |
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Venture Capital Streams Into Internet Phone Company
May 9, 2005
By Matt Richtel
Vonage, the Internet telephone company, is expected to announce formally today that it has raised $200 million in new private investments, one of the largest single rounds of venture capital financing in the last decade.
The size of the deal underscores the confidence of the lead investors, including several major Silicon Valley venture capital firms, that Vonage, a privately held company, can continue to thrive as an Internet telephone provider even as regional Bell companies and cable providers enter the business.
The investment comes as Internet telephony, a service that allows consumers and businesses to place calls using high-speed Internet connections, is beginning to take hold. Vonage, the leader in the field, has 650,000 subscribers and adds about 15,000 subscribers a week.
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Posted by Vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 03:00:00 CDT
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Vonage Will Use VC Funds For Mainstream Marketing |
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Vonage Gets $200 Million In Equity Financing To Add Customers
May 9, 2005
By Timothy W. Doyle
May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Vonage Holdings Corp., the Internet telephone company with more the 650,000 subscribers, raised $200 million from private-equity firms including Bain Capital LLC to help add more customers.
Bain led the financing with Meritech Capital Partners, 3i Group Plc, New Enterprise Associates and Institutional Venture Partners, Vonage Chief Financial Officer John Rego said.
Vonage, based in Edison, New Jersey, has raised $408 million since its 2001 inception, including $105 million last August.
Closely held Vonage is adding as many as 75,000 customers a month using Voice-over-Internet-Protocol, or VoIP, technology instead local-telephone lines. Vonage offers unlimited calling in the U.S. and Canada for $25 a month.
"We're in an exponential growth mode," Rego said in an interview. "This kind of equity helps fuel that growth."
Vonage, which is planning to sell its product in Asia, will use the funds to pay for advertising as it seeks to reach 1 million subscribers by the end of the year, Rego said. The company has gained about 250,000 new customers this year.
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Posted by Vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 02:40:00 CDT
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VC's Like The Sound Of VoIP, Vonage |
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California dreamin?
VCs Are Still Thinking Big In Silicon Valley, But They're Placing More Bets Outside Information Technology
May 9, 2005
By Robert Weisman
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Silicon Valley venture capitalists were grudgingly coming to terms with a sober new era, devoid of irrational exuberance, when they were jolted by the Google juggernaut.
Only a lucky few venture backers, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, reaped giant gains from Google, which raised $1.67 billion in an initial public offering last summer and more than doubled its share price since. But the Google IPO gave a psychological boost to investors in the risky high-tech start-ups that have long defined the Bay Area business scene.
"It reminded us that you have to be visionary, you have to take chances, that dreams do happen," said Kenneth P. Lawler, general partner at Battery Ventures in San Mateo, Calif. ''You don't want to get to be so conservative, so analytical that you can't find a way to take a crazy chance every once in a while on a couple of super smart guys with a wild idea and visions of glory. You just have to go for it."
"What it shows is the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well, and even entrenched companies are vulnerable," said Walter G. Kortschak, managing partner at Summit Partners in Palo Alto. "There's innovation. There's opportunity for improvement in a variety of sectors."
And venture firms in Silicon Valley, the heart of US venture capital investment, have continued to put their money to work in a post-bubble environment that is at once less certain and more competitive, especially in their own neighborhood. Even as venture investing slowed 7.9 percent nationally in the first quarter of 2005, and tumbled 19.2 percent in New England from the same period a year ago, investments from Silicon Valley venture capital firms fell off just 2 percent.
But the investment mix has changed markedly from the boom years of the 1990s, when information technology drove economic expansion and early-stage start-ups were the rage. The start-ups raising money today are not only capitalizing on rapid Internet adoption, like Google, but also using technology for biomedical, environmental, multimedia, and other applications. And more mature later-stage companies are grabbing a larger chunk of the dollars.
Familiar high-tech sectors such as networking, security, enterprise software, and wireless communications are still drawing funds. But so are emerging areas ranging from nanotechnology to clean energy, from open source software to business process outsourcing. And investors are backing traditional businesses, like consumer products and financial services, that use technology for competitive advantage.
"The big megatrend that I've been investing in is really use of the Internet for the basic fabric of our business and personal life," said J. Sanford (Sandy) Miller, a US managing director of 3i Group in Menlo Park, Calif., who backed the Vonage broadband phone service.
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Posted by Vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 02:20:00 CDT
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Vonage Not Worried About Cable Co's VoIP Entry |
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Vonage Holds Its Own Against Cable Companies
May 9, 2005
By Danielle M. George
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. on Monday said it had reached 650,000 lines without experiencing pressure from cable companies launching their own telephone services.
Vonage raised $200 million in funding last week, bringing the total venture capital raised by Vonage to $408 million.
Vonage is an internet calling service that uses a technology known as voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP, to transmit phone calls over the Internet, which makes calls less expensive than traditional phone services.
Analysts had expected that Vonage's growth rate would fall as cable companies such as Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. launched phone services.
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Posted by Vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 02:00:00 CDT
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Vonage Secures Funding To Continue Its Expansion |
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Vonage Remains VC Darling
May 9, 2005
By Colin C. Haley
VoIP upstart and venture capital darling Vonage will announce an eye-popping $200 million in new financing today in order to fund its continued expansion.
The Edison, N.J., company claims that the round, led by the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, is the largest for a tech company since the Internet industry downturn.
The backing comes less than a year after Vonage banked $105 million, and it brings its total financing to $408 million.
"We're really excited about this round and growing the business," John Rego, Vonage's CFO, told internetnews.com. "It validates our model."
The cash infusion will help the company expand internationally. Vonage is now open in Canada and the United Kingdom and is scouting markets in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Posted by Vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 01:40:00 CDT
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VoIP Provider Vonage Raises $200 Million |
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VoIP Provider Vonage Raises A Further $200 Million
May 9, 2005
By John Walko
LONDON — Voice over IP provider Vonage Holdings has raised a further $200 million in a Series D venture capital financing round led by Bain Capital, doubling the venture capital it has raised since its formation in 2001.
The company says the funds are needed to maintain the phenomenal growth it has achieved in the number of subscribers it has attracted to its service, currently said to be 600,000. Its ambitious target is to sign up 1.2 million subscribers by the end of this year.
Earlier this year, the company rolled out services in the U.K. and Canada, and it says most of the money it has raised will go on international expansion and marketing of its service in North America.
Analysts suggest Vonage is spending about $10 million each month to acquire new customers.
The Series D round of financing comes just nine months after it raised $105 million, much of which is still in the bank. Other existing investors such as 3i Group, New Enterprise Associates, Meritech Capital and Institutional Venture Partners also participated in the latest round.
The size of the additional investment, one of the largest VC fundings so far this year, underscores the investment community's confidence that consumer VoIP services are set to increase dramatically.
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Posted by Vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 01:20:00 CDT
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Vonage Raises $200 Million In Venture Funds |
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Vonage Raises $200 Million In Venture Funds
May 9, 2005
By Staff
The VoIP provider Vonage today announced that it had raised $200 million in its latest round of financing, bringing the total investment in the company to $408 million.
Vonage said that the new funds will be used to accelerate expansion in the United States, Canada and the UK, and may be used to launch into new international markets. The money will also be used for product development.
The latest round of financing was led by Bain Capital, with participation from existing investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), 3i, Meritech Capital Partners, and Institutional Venture Partners. Vonage senior management also participated in the round.
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Posted by Vonage on Tuesday, May 10 @ 01:00:00 CDT
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