Selling Skype to New Investors Completed

Yesterday evening (Moscow time), eBay announced the closure of a deal to sell Skype. The final terms of the transaction are based on a valuation of the company at $ 2.75 billion. The buyer was a group of investors headed by the Silver Lake investment fund and including Joltid Limited (the company founded by Nicklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis Skype) ) and the evening fund Andreessen Horowitz.
eBay has earned approximately $ 1.9 billion in cash and will retain approximately a 30% stake in the company.