Robert Gaal and Wouter Broekhof
Wakoopa
www.wakoopa.com
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ages: 22 and 23
Robert Gaal and Wouter Broekhof, two prominent Dutch bloggers, are the founders of Wakoopa, a social network for software users. Their goal: making it easier to track, share, and find software. After signing up on the Web site, users install a small application on their PC or Mac that tracks what software they use for a variety of applications, such as music players, office software, and photo editing. The information is used to create a profile of each user's software usage so that members and their friends can track how long they have been using a program. Participants can add or invite friends and immediately know what cool games or programs they are running. The site also allows users to see what new versions have come out of different types of software and check out how other people rate software.
Wakoopa launched on May 1 and has already signed up 6,500 members. The company has received around $135,000 in funding from DCIF, a Dutch investment fund founded by the three biggest media companies in the Netherlands, Ilse, IDG, and De Telegraaf.
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