JAJAH raise $20m, Intel become lead investor

Just had a note from a rather excited Frederik at JAJAH, announcing that Intel have become the lead investor in their latest round of funding – which raised $20m. Congratulations guys!

As part of the deal with Intel, JAJAH have also got themselves a marketing agreement through thousands of Intel dealers and OEMs across the world, plus access to Intel’s technical brains and patent portfolio.

Here’s what Daniel and Roman, co-founders of JAJAH, have to say:

“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.

So where are they heading with all this cash and knowledge? Think embedded VOIP into next generation CPUs, and you’re not far off just one of the ways they’re looking at combining the world of computers and telephony. Watch this space, interesting times are heading this way!