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SoonR today announced that it has closed a strategic $9.5 million Series B investment led by Cisco, intended to help the company expand its mobile platform and advance its new partner-driven distribution strategy. Previous investors Intel Capital and Clearstone Venture Partners also participated in the round. Total investment in the two-year old company now stands at $15.5 million.

SoonR presented recently at MobileMonday Madrid in December, and has been included in many presentations I did last year on the Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem. SoonR has a quite unique solution for business people on the move: users can easily access, back up and share files on their desktop computer while on the go, right from their mobile phone or Internet-enabled device. Since my last hard drive crash I want my data backed-up in the cloud so solutions like SoonR have definately a great future ahead.

In the last six months, SoonR has announced partnerships with TeliaSonera, a major telecommunications operator in Denmark, as well as a joint development and marketing partnership with Texas and London-based QuickOffice to provide next-generation mobile services.

The company has expanded the management team, bringing former investor, board member and telecommunications industry veteran Patrick McVeigh to the helm of the company as chief executive officer. Patrick also panelled at the Mobile 2.0 Conference. Definately a great move for the start-up founded in 2005!

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After december’s MobileMonday Barcelona event on Location-Based Services, the next MobileMonday Madrid event of December 17 covers Mobile Social Media.

Social Media has gone mainstream this year with popular sites such as MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Flickr to only name the most popular. Social Media is the catalyst to the democratization of content publishing, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. Many of this social neworking & tools and sites can already be accessed from the mobile phone but the real challenges are lying into making all this user-generated content easily accesible on the phone in the right context while staying connected with your social network of friends wherever you are.

Another interesting line-up to cover and discuss this topic:

Jonathan Wood from SoonR, will explain how they deliver access to computer files and applications across converged networks by linking mobile devices to remote computers;

David Whitewood from trutap - who recently showcased at Under The Radar - Mobility event, will present their easy-to-use and free mobile service that combines all the elements of a young person’s social life into one application;

Christian Wiklund from Wichro will be presenting the 1st Wichro product, called ZKOUT. ZKOUT will be beta launched during Le Web 3 conference in Paris and launched to the public in Q1 2008. The service creates a bridge that connects your online and real world social networks;

Andy Abramson, author of VoIPWatch will talk about Mobile VoIP and Social Communications, as the blend between Social Networks and Social Media;

and Jaime González Rodríguez from Telefonica I+D will talk on Mobile Data and crossplatform (Mobile / Web / TV) services and the impact for Telco’s on their own service portfolio in order to harness the true potential of Mobile Social Media.

More details at MobileMondayMadrid.com. Attendance is free; all you need to do is register and/or confirm your presence for this event at www.mobilemondaymadrid.com/subscribe/ and reserve one of the 150 seats available. Book now to avoid being left out, this event is going to be a blast!

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Here’s my presentation on the Mobile 2.0 Start-Up Ecosystem I did last week in London at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. Many people in the audience seemed to like the presentation, including Jeff Barr from Amazon. I decided to share the presentation with you here on my blog, comments more then welcome of course.