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From the Corporate Finance Department of Burda’s Venture Capital Ablegers: German market’s leading photo and video platform will maintain full autonomy. Cologne, 26.03.2007 – Burda Digital Ventures GmbH has completed a minority investment in sevenload GmbH and has simultaneously agreed to a comprehensive (though non-exclusive) cooperation with Burda R&D, Marketing & Communications. “We are delighted to have won Burda as a partner, who we feel has recognized the potential of digital media very early on”, said Ibrahim Evsan, Founder and CTO of sevenload. “Burda offers us complete company autonomy paired with deeper media expertise”, highlighted Axel Schmiegelow, sevenload’s CEO. “Burda’s thematic range and target markets will work well with our strategy.” sevenload’s goal is to win new users through qualitative differentiation and new clients through additional internet portals and implementation of the company’s unique video technology. “In addition to an unbeatable technological advance, we were persuaded by the consequent orientation of an efficient business model. The management team understood where the value from video platforms on the web are added”, explained Frank Seehaus, Director of Burda Digital Ventures. Burda R&D, Marketing and Communications Director Dr. Marcel Reichart also added: “Our investment in sevenload makes it possible for us to strengthen our position in the video publishing market, and that includes our media brands and communities, new formats and marketing offers.” sevenload received financial consultation for this year’s transaction for the German ” Web 2.0″ from IEG Investment Banking in Berlin. Burda Digital Ventures is the group is the group company responsible for VC and investment activities in the field of new media. Including sevenload, the portfolio comprises 25 affiliated companies in the areas Media, Platforms, Commerce, Games & Entertainment as well as Wireless. The managing directors are Dr. Christoph Braun and Frank Seehaus.
Burda R&D, Marketing & Communications includes the areas group market research, umbrella brand development and integration, events (DLD) and development of new digital medial communities as well as corporate communications. The unit headed by managing directors Dr. Marcel Reichert and Stephanie Czerny directly report to publisher Dr Hubert Burda. About sevenload: sevenload GmbH is currently preparing for international expansion. Facts & Figures: 87,000 registered users / 4 Mill. unique visits (February 2007) / 950,000 photo and video uploads / 25 million photo and video downloads / 3 million minutes of video broadcast daily / server capacity of 16,000 videos a second / 1.6 million external pages that have an embedded sevenload player / Website of the Year 2006 (user survey via MetrixLab, Nielsen / Netratings and TechCrunch). For further information, please contact: |
Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 Award On April 15, 2008 sevenload was declared one of Red Herring's 100 Europe Award winners. The 100 list is released anually with the names of innovative and promising new ventures. 
Innovations Product 2008 Germany sevenload won in the category "Web 2.0" which had over 1,600 entries. 
Website of the Year 2007 and 2006 (Germany) sevenload has now twice won the award as "Best Video Site". The competition was run by MetrixLab, Nielsen/Netratings and TechCrunch, and received a total of 552,000 votes. 
Best Video Community sevenload was honored with the title "best video community" by Computer Bild on August 20, 2007. Current News
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