eBuddy is a privately held Dutch software company that offers instant messaging services.

[6] On November 4, 2014, eBuddy XMS scored 1 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard.

[11] With the move toward mobile, in 2013, the company announced that it was discontinuing development of its eBuddy Chat multi-protocol instant messaging clients.

His idea was established as a consequence from a bet to develop MSN Messenger, as it was named in 2003, for a mobile phone.

Originally backed by Prime Technology Ventures and Lowland Capital Partners and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with offices in Singapore and San Francisco, United States.,[15] after a successful partnership with Japanese-based GREE, eBuddy was sold via an acqui-hire to Booking.com.