Skyrider - Riding the P2P Networks

Welcome out of stealth mode Skyrider! I met with Ed Kozel Skyrider's President & CEO (currently serves on the boards of Yahoo, Reuters and Applied Networks) and Or Cohen, Skyrider's Co-founder last week in Palo Alto and am really impressed by their technology and the business model.

Skyrider is a developer of a new peer-to-peer (P2P) networking platform who's technology will allow the P2P environment and the web to coexist, creating three fundamental opportunities, including keyword-based P2P search; unrestricted and more dynamic access to content; and an explosion of new applications based on P2P architectures.

The company’s unique platform enables businesses to promote commercialization of P2P through cost-effective content distribution and targeted marketing, and enables consumers to get the greatest opportunity to be creative and connect through P2P networks. Skyrider is located in Mountain View with R&D in Kfar Saba in Israel.

Guess what, Skyrider is  just like Maxthon funded by Charles River Ventures (George Zachary is on their board) and Sequoia Capital - a great company with a very promising future.