In case you hadn’t heard a Cork-based company Cubic Telecom headed by Pat Phelan is making some waves on the technology scene. A few weeks ago they confirmed raising 5M Euro for the new venture and for the last few days have been presenting at the very high profile TechCrunch40 event in San Francisco.

Pat and his team are providing a new service called MaxRoam (launching October 1st) that allows people to use their mobiles all over the world for a fraction of the prices currently charged by GSM providers.

If you hadn’t heard already Cubic Telecom have already made huge steps to reduce the rip-off prices for international landline calls - allfreecalls.ie, allfreecalls.co.uk and yak4ever.com.

Pat and Cubic Telecom chairman Don Jeffery also happen to have a history of supporting the tech community in Ireland particularly in Cork. OpenCoffeeClub Cork for the most part have been meeting in Luigi Malones (owned by Don Jeffery) with Pat being a frequent attendee. Not only that but Pat also gave a spare ticket for TechCrunch 40 to Conor O’Neill of Loudervoice.comanother local company with potential.

In doing some prep work for the Paddys Valley trip I put together a list of the more well-known venture capitalists using Google Maps: VC’s in the Valley

The list of VCs in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Menlo Park used in the map above is here:

• 3i
• Accel Partners
• Acorn Ventures, Inc.
• Alta Partners
• August Capital Management, LLC
• Battery Ventures
• Benchmark Capital Management Co., LLC
• Bessemer Venture Partners
• Canaan Partners
• Crosspoint Venture Partners
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• El Dorado Ventures
• Institutional Venture Partners
• Integral Capital Partners
• InterWest Partners
• Jumpstart Ventures LLC
• Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Mayfield Fund
• Menlo Ventures
• Mohr, Davidow Ventures
• Morgenthaler
• Panorama Capital, LLC
• Partech International
• Redpoint Ventures
• Scale Venture Partners
• Selby Venture Partners
• Sequoia Capital
• Sierra Ventures
• Sigma Partners
• TPG Ventures, Inc.
• Trinity Ventures
• U.S. Venture Partners
• Vision Capital
• Vista Equity Partners, LLC
• Walden International Investment Group
• WaldenVC

As an aside searching for the companies using Google Maps was very unreliable, often a completely inaccurate address was presented so I had to double check with each sites contact details.

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