Daniel Mattes
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Silicon Valley
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, USA and Austria
Austria
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, Europe. He is the founder and CEO of the online payment company Jumio. In March 2011 Jumio announced closing of its $6.5m round of financing, led by Facebook
Facebook
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co-founder Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo P. Saverin is a Brazilian-born American internet entrepreneur and investor. Saverin is best known for co-founding Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes...
. Prior to Jumio he founded VoIP company Jajah
Jajah
Jajah is a VoIP provider, founded by Austrians Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes in 2005. The Jajah headquarters are located in Mountain View, CA, USA, and Luxembourg. Jajah maintains a development centre in Israel...
which was acquired 2009 for $207 million by Telefonica.
In 2007, he was voted 81st most important Austrian citizen by Austrian magazine “News” in the “1000 most important Austrians” list and voted 54th most important Austrian citizen in Salzburg by Austrian magazine "Salzburger Fenster" in the "Top 100 list". He published three IT books, was speaker at conferences like the Churchill Club, DEMO Conference
DEMO conference
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or the University of Linz and wrote multiple articles in tech-related magazines. In his professional life he has close working relationships with companies like Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital
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, Intel, Yahoo, Microsoft
Microsoft
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, eBay
EBay
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and other important players in the industry. During his ventures he was covered multiple times on TV (See Videos), radio and newspapers like Vanity Fair
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, New York Times, USA Today
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, Business Week, Financial Times
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or Wirtschaftsblatt.
Biography
Daniel, oldest child of Edeltraud and Manfred Mattes, grew up in FreiburgFreiburg
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, Germany
Germany
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and Wels
Wels
Wels is the second largest city of the state of Upper Austria, located in the north of Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is not part of its surrounding Wels County , but a so-called Statutarstadt . However, Wels is the county seat of Wels-Land.- Geography :Wels is located in the...
, Austria
Austria
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. He has two siblings – Sebastian and Simon. Since early childhood, Daniel has shown interest in computers and electronic media. He started programming software at the age of 12. At 18 he was teaching computer classes for Institut 2F, Italy
Italy
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. He moved on to become consultant for IT related projects of BP Oil
BP
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, Mobil Oil, Hewlett Packard and Alcatel
Alcatel
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.
He studied Computer Science & Economics at the Technical University of Linz (Austria), received the University diploma “Certified e-Business Manager” from the Danube University Krems (Austria) and did his post-graduate work in IT Management at the Danube University of Krems (Austria).
Professional life
Jumio IncIn 2010, Daniel founded Jumio Inc., a start-up for online payments. In March 2011 Jumio announced closing of its $6.5m round of financing, led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
Jajah Inc.
In 2005, Daniel teamed up with Roman Scharf
Roman Scharf
Roman Scharf is a businessman, investor and one of the co-founders of VoIP company Jajah.- Biography :Austrian Roman Scharf graduated from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, receiving an excellency award from the European Commission for his thesis on "Environmental...
to form Jajah
Jajah
Jajah is a VoIP provider, founded by Austrians Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes in 2005. The Jajah headquarters are located in Mountain View, CA, USA, and Luxembourg. Jajah maintains a development centre in Israel...
. At the company, Daniel acted as Executive Chairman until 2009. During this time, they raised $35 million in venture funding from Deutsche Telekom AG, Santa Clara-based Intel Capital, Menlo Park-based Sequoia Capital and Palo Alto-based Globespan Capital Partners. Jajah had an impressive infrastructure for its VOIP service and had been concentrating its efforts more on offering a white-label service for operators and other providers than competing directly with Skype or Google Voice. It took over the running of Yahoo’s VOIP service 2008 and has also been offering its service to the enterprise market. After reaching 25 million clients worldwide, Jajah was acquired December 2009 by Telefonica for $207 million in an all cash deal.
Business Angel
Acting as a business angel, Daniel has helped companies Technik Design (Austria), ACP Capital Partners (Austria), Kronomy Inc. (USA) and Talenthouse Inc. (USA) with his expertise in internet strategy, technology and contacts.
Auftrag.at
In 1999, Daniel co-founded the e-government solution company “Auftrag.at” with a direct co-ownership of the government owned publication “Wiener Zeitung
Wiener Zeitung
Wiener Zeitung is an Austrian newspaper. It is one of the most famous newspapers in Europe and one of the oldest, still published newspapers in the world. It is the official publication used by the Government of the Republic of Austria for its formal announcements. It was founded in 1703 under the...
”. They successfully lobbied to allow public tenders to be published on business websites. The company received Austria's Federal Award of Excellence in 2002 and has become the de-facto standard for public tenders in Europe.
Publications
- 2000 „Datenbanken mit Delphi“ publisher: C&L-Verlag
- 2001 „SQLSQLSQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
– Der Einsatz im Intra- und Extranet“ publisher: C&L-Verlag - 2002 "Datenbanken mit Delphi, 2. Auflage“ publisher: C&L Verlag
Honors and awards
- May 2009 - JAJAH Wins TiE50 Award
- April 2009 - CNET Webware 100 Awards Finalist
- November 2008 - Jajah named "Top VoIP Company 2008" by FierceVoIP
- August 2008 - Jajah selected by AlwaysOn as an AO Global 250 Winner
- March 2008 - Graham Bell Award "Best Communication Solution 2007"
- December 2007 - Winner "FierceVoIP Top Ten Leaders in VoIP"
- November 2007 - Jajah named "Red Herring Top 100 Global" Finalist
- August 2007 - Winner "AlwaysOn 100 Top Companies"
- March 2007 - Jajah named "Pulver 100" winner
- January 2007 – Daniel ranked as 81st most important Austrian (News Magazine)
- November 2006 - Winner "Fierce 15 Wireless"
- October 2006 - Daniel ranked as 54th most important Austrian citizen in Salzburg (Salzburger Fenster)
- May 2006 - Jajah named "Red Herring Top 100"
- Top 100 Innovators Award
- November 2002: Federal Award of Excellence, Austria