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QINO Flagship Reaffirms Web 2.0 Investment Strategy
BAAR, Switzerland, May 7 /PRNewswire/ --
- QINO Flagship - Kronomy Offers a New Dimension
QINO Flagship AG (Reuters: QINO.BN) announces its investment in Kronomy
Inc. (www.kronomy.com), a start-up that is taking social networking to a new
dimension by linking personal events, experiences and time to create a
collective global memory.
Kronomy effortlessly integrates new and pre-existing content from users'
favourite sources - social networks, blogs, shopping portals, news sites, etc
- and organises it chronologically on unique 3-D graphical timelines, which
are then easily exported to third party sites, e.g. Facebook, MySpace, eBay,
LinkedIn or even a corporate website. Whatever content users want to display
in their timelines - personal life, music tastes, purchases, career, a
product history - Kronomy facilitates it.
"Kronomy is the essential tool for the organisation, storage and display
of all forms of content," says Kronomy CEO and co-founder Michael
Hirschbrich. "It is the time portal that will enable users to put all their
content into chronological order, display it, share it in a brand new way and
embed it anywhere."
Kronomy chairman and Jajah co-founder Roman Scharf likens it to another
success story: "Kronomy does with time what Google Maps does with geography.
It adds a revolutionary time element to the browsing experience of social
networking and other websites. Its portability and the context it gives offer
countless opportunities to monetise user-generated content."
QINO Flagship's investment in Kronomy reaffirms the Web 2.0 strategy it
began with its investment in Jajah Inc. QINO Flagship now has access to
networks and opportunities that are normally open only to founders, major
strategic partners and the top venture capital providers. "We seek out
promising European start-ups and pave their way to Silicon Valley," explains
Daniel Marty, QINO Flagship chairman. "Michael Hirschbrich and Andreas
Schietz, Kronomy's co-founders, have already made the move from Austria to
Silicon Valley."
Every stage of Kronomy's development, from concept through funding to
beta launch, has been achieved at phenomenal speed. Its dynamism and
potential have already been recognised by an investment consortium that
includes lead investor QINO Flagship AG, BrainsToVentures AG (b-to-v) and
business angels such as Daniel Mattes (co-founder of Jajah) and Lars Hinrichs
(founder and CEO of XING AG). Kronomy is currently seeking further investors
for its upcoming A-Round funding.
About QINO Flagship AG
QINO Flagship AG is a Swiss investment company, founded in 2000 and based
in Baar, Switzerland. Its shares are officially quoted on the BX Berne
eXchange and are also traded on the OTC markets of the Vienna, Berlin,
Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart stock exchanges.
Press Contact
QINO:
Daniel Marty
T:+41(0)417-665-333
F:+41(0)417-665-334
E:dm@qino.com
I: http://www.qino.com
Creatix Communications Agency:
Neil Wilkins
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E:wilkins@creatix.at






