I got a note from another friend, Frederik Hermann at JAJAH this afternoon. It seems that when I go to meetings and get really busy, good stuff starts hitting lots of people I know.

Frederik was letting me know that they're announcing today that Intel has become the
lead investor in their $20 million Series C investment round.

This is a landmark deal for JAJAH. It's HUGE. HUGE. JAJAH gains access to the great technical knowledge of Intel and access to Intel's broad range of patents from their patent portfolio. That's bigger news than a simple sentence really portrays. A marketing arrangement with Intel is also part of the agreement. JAJAH will have access to Intel's OEMs and dealers around the world.

There's more in the press release, but you can follow the links. Congrats to Frederik, Roman and the JAJAH team. Those folks have really been on a streak lately.

And congrats to Intel for making what I expect will turn out to be one very smart investment.

JAJAH will use the proceeds to develop the next generation of communication services for the web and for mobile devices. We will use the proceeds for general operating needs and we will also be investing in new R&D in order to realize the visionary items we have on our road map.

JAJAH sees a world where all telephony becomes IP based. As this happens, new classes of services and solutions are going to emerge. In this new world, the consumer is the big winner. Our vision is to be at the forefront of innovation, creating new, richer ways for users to communicate.

"Our vision is to lead the way into the next generation of communication," said Daniel Mattes, JAJAH co-founder and chief architect. "All voice communication will soon be IP-based. The lines between computers and phones are gradually being removed. Phones are quickly turning into computers and computers are quickly turning into phones. We need to marry phones and computers in a fundamental way!"

"It is our intention to bring a best-of-class, next generation solution to the market which will be embedded in any CPU for use on any computing device. Rapid innovation, technology convergence and device ubiquity will remove the last barriers to global communication. This partnership will take Jajah to a new level and put us on a path to make significant contributions to the future of communications." said Roman Scharf, JAJAH co-founder

http://blog.jajah.com/press_kit/intel