Breaking News: It is Official: Facebook gets more investors!

German Serial Entrepreneurs the Samwer brothers; Alexander, Oliver and Marc have announced that they have invested in facebook and will be the European partners. They said they are impressed with what facebook has done and want to help them in Europe. Facebook already is on a European Growth Tear and is fast gaining traction in the following European countries: UK, Turkey, Sweden, Norway and France.

Samwer, who declined to reveal the size of the stake, said the brothers would now become Facebook’s strategic partners in Europe. We are not sure what that means exactly. The brothers sold their previous mobile content provider company Jamba to Verisign for a reported 273 million in 2003.

The amount of the investment is unclear at this time, but it is rumored to be in the neighborhood of ~60 million. “We are going to support the expansion of Facebook in Europe … We know the online space in Europe extremely well,” Samwer said in a telephone interview with Reuters.

Samwer would not disclose the size of the investment, except that it was a “significant” amount, and less than the $240 million Microsoft paid for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook in October, which valued the site at $15 billion.

The brother were also investors in a facebook like social networking site for students in Germany called Studivz. Studivz was apparently sold for approx 100 Million Euros.

“We think Facebook is, after Google, the most innovative company to have emerged in the last few years. We think it will be the phenomenon for the Internet that Windows was for the desktop,” Samwer said.

Hey that sounds a lot like what we have been saying for a long time about Facebook.

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