Ya entrepreneurial ecosystem helped the company gain since September 2000 over 550 million euros.
If we go back to the first great exits, we must mention the one of Ya.com , which was made in in pesetas, since in 2000 the country was in full monetary transition.
Under the acquisition agreement, Deutsche Telekom (DT) signed the purchase of Ya.com , the portal and network access provider of Jazztel, through its Internet subsidiary, T-Online, for 550 million euros (91,512 million pesetas).
T-Online paid 100 million euros in cash to Jazztel (Ya.com ) and the remaining 450 million in shares, in addition to assuming a debt of 23 million.
Ya entrepreneurial ecosystem
This is not the only appearance of Ya.com in the ranking of the biggest hits of the last 25 years: in June 2007, it was sold for 320 million euros to France Télécom.
This acquisition allowed its subsidiary Orange to strengthen its position as the second ADSL provider in the Spanish market, with more than one million customers, and to offer an alternative to the historical operator: Telefónica.
Recently, Orange España and MasMóvil announced their historic merger to create a telephony giant and number one in the Spanish market by customers. According to others, the definitive agreement on the integration of the businesses is valued at 18,600 million euros.
Ya.com o Yacom was originally the internet brand of Jazztel. Created in June 1999 by Martín Varsavsky and a group of former employees of Terra12 within Jazztel Internet Factory, the subsidiary company of Jazztel for the internet. With the aim of competing in the business of services, content and internet access portals. In March 2000 the company was definitively renamed Ya.com Internet Factory.
Ya entrepreneurial ecosystem details
Ya.com arrived to build an extensive network of portals and services well known, either by acquisition; as Mixmail.com(e-mail), Inforchat.com(chat service) or Chueca.com portal (gay community); or, as Viajar.com, Finanzas.com and Supermotor.com created with internal teams and/or internet entrepreneurs hired for this purpose. It was also a leader in mobile internet portals (wap and for Palm PDAs).
In September 2000, Deutsche Telekom's internet subsidiary, T-Online, bought 100% of the company for 553 million euros. T-Online reoriented the brand and the company towards the ADSL Internet access business, reaching 400,000 customers and gradually abandoned the portal business.
In June 2007 the company was acquired by Orange, the mobile and internet access subsidiary of France Télécom for 320 million euros. Until September 2012, it operated independently under its own brand and was aimed at a segment of the internet access market with low tariffs.
Ya entrepreneurial ecosystem history
Since September 1, 2012, the company stopped marketing ADSL to new customers. Finally, in October 2012, France Télécom unified its ADSL customers with those of its main brand Orange, which meant the total disappearance of the Yacom division, ending 13 years of history of that brand.
The sale of Ya.com a T-Online has led the ranking of Internet company sales in Spain for 20 years until in September 2020 it was relegated to second place by the sale of Idealista.com .
