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Nokia Injects $150 Million Into Mobile Software and Services (bloomberg.com)
10 points by iamelgringo on Aug 2, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Interesting to see Nokia get involved more deeply into the software and services. Also good to to understand the movement in investment focus of large incumbents. Might not be a prefect fit for early seed stage startups that much as Nokia Growth Partners focus is on companies that:

1. Have a commercially available product or service

2. Are ramping revenues in large, growing markets

3. Are beginning to experience adoption by major industry participants such as Nokia.

Especially 2 and 3 will be harder for YC style companies like ours.


it's a venture fund and they ve been doing it for long time now


In a way, we can thank Apple for this.

Disruptive products drive competitors to innovate, or at least fund innovation that will benefit them.




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