Netvibes, a start up in the personalisable home page space, announced it has received seed funding from a group of high-profile investors including leading European venture fund Index Ventures; Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape; Pierre Chappaz,
founder of Kelkoo and Wikio; and Martin Varsavsky founder of Jazztel, Ya.com and Fon.

More than one million personal pages have already been created using Netvibes, a free service currently in beta, providing users with a simple way to create personalized home pages with the content and functionality they need to manage their digital lives. Netvibes allows users to aggregate their favourite news sites, blogs, e-mail accounts, data feeds and popular web 2.0 services on a single page with a very simple drag and drop interface.

The service allows users to save and access their personalized home page from any web terminal. "Our vision is to create a new web interface standard and a refreshingly new, yet simple way for users to access all the information and services the
Internet can offer today," said Tariq Krim, Netvibes founder and chief executive officer.

Headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Netvibes is supported by a team of talented Web 2.0 developers from across Europe pushing out new services via an open API. The service is already available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese and Hindi. The interface has been translated in more than 50 other languages.

Pierre Chappaz, entrepreneur in residence at Index Ventures, who also invested personally, is joining the Netvibes board of directors. "We decided to invest in Netvibes because it is a service that users fall in love with as soon as they try it. It is truly changing the web experience," Chappaz explained.

Netvibes provides a simple and convenient way to create a personalized home page that serves as a dashboard and control panel for the user's whole digital life. Supporting Gmail, as well as Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail and any other POP3 e-mail server, Netvibes allows users to manage multiple e-mail accounts in the same place. Netvibes also offers an ever-expanding set of application modules including an RSS reader for blogs and news feeds, an integrated podcast player, Flickr integration, online word processing with Writely, bookmark tagging with Deli.cio.us and online storage with Box.net.