IPhone startups have raised $ 100 million

On simple games like tetris or balls, lonely programmers earn millions of dollars. And it does not give rest to the rest. The gold rush around the iPhone and the App Store is in full swing.

No crisis prevents investors from investing heavily in startups that make applications for a new mobile platform. Recent statistics from Chubby Research shows that the amount of investment in iPhone startups has already exceeded $ 100 million ! This is really a big amount. The investment appraisal is not at all sucked from the finger: all transactions are documented and calculated: to be exact, 17 iPhone startups received a total of $ 102.49 million investment (as of June 29, 2009). All companies promise to return the investment in the 10-15-fold size, making and selling software for the iPhone. That is, this bubble is equal to the assessment of the market for iPhone applications and a half billion dollars! Really fantastic numbers.

Investment in iPhone startups will only grow. The Venture Fund Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers in March allocated $ 100 million specifically for such startups (the iFund fund). To date, they have spent only half of this amount.
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Although, on the other hand, the same investors and business angels have already spent $ 23.3 million on twitter startups . Of course, Twitter is the fastest growing website in the history of the Internet. But these hopes to establish a multi-million dollar business on the basis of a free, unprofitable service look rather dubious. Although, on the other hand, what else do startups do now, if not on Twitter and iPhone?