Skype founding engineers place strategic investment in Idapted

Beijing, PRC December 31st, 2006

Idapted announced today the completion of its seed round financing. The Company completed the majority of its financing in August 2006 with lead investors from the Sacramento Angels and several other prominent angel investors. The Company reserved some of its round for other potentially strategic investors, which it found in Ambient Sound Investments (“ASI”), a fund made up of several engineers from Skype’s founding team. Given Idapted’s use of VoIP technology, it believes that the connection with ASI brings invaluable knowledge to the Company.

About Idapted, Ltd.

Idapted provides live on-demand language learning powered by in house online learning technology and an extensive network of Idapted certified instructors. Everyday, students from around the world connect with Idapted instructors for one on one Mandarin and English training through our websites www.studiochinese.com and www.eqenglish.com.

Idapted is backed by Gobi Partners and Ambient Sound Investments as well as experienced Angel Investors. The Company’s Board of Advisors includes well known mentors Bill Trenchard, President of LiveOps; Russ Siegelman formerly of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and Xu Xiao Ping, co-founder for New Oriental School (EDU).

About Ambient Sound Investments

Ambient Sound Investments (ASI) was established by the four founding engineers of Skype, the Internet telephony company. ASI is a professional investment fund with a specific interest in technology start-ups focusing on areas ranging from software and services to applications and devices. Since March 2006 the company has invested in several sectors including telematics, biotechnology, software and services. For more information, please visit: www.asi.ee

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