Tag Archives: FreeAgent

April 5, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

On Small Business Accounting, Yodlee, Perceptions and Critical Mass

By Ben Kepes

UK (and global, to an extent) SMB accounting vendor FreeAgent recently announced that it was rolling out automated bank feeds for its customers. For those of you who don’t follow the space, automatic bank feeds (the ability for a small business to have all it’s transactions show up within its

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May 3, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

By Ben Kepes

Big news in the SaaS accounting space this morning as FreeAgent announces that it has acquired US accounting provider 60mo and will be using the company as its vehicle for a US expansion. 60mo is a small SaaS provider that has quietly been going about building a small following for

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January 23, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

FreeAgent Eases Life for Freelancers and their Expenses Conundrum

By Ben Kepes

Like many freelancers, I incur significant expenses in the course of my contracting work and have to on-charge these expenses to clients. Ideally I’d tick a box in my accounting application and that would allow that cost to flow through to a client invoice without me having to enter it

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October 26, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes

The other day SaaS Accounting vendor Wave announced that it had just closed $5 million in funding led by well respected VC, Charles River Ventures. While yet another vendor raising a series A wouldn’t usually be cause for comment, this is an interesting case in that Wave, as I’ve written

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September 13, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

FreeAgent Nabs Series B

By Ben Kepes

News just in that UK SaaS accounting vendor FreeAgent has nabbed GBP2M in investment from SM Trust and Torch Partners. It’s an interesting development given the other two main players in the UK market, Xero and KashFlow are both currently well funded – Xero via an IPO and some subsequent

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August 19, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

LiquidAccounts and ClearBooks Update

By Ben Kepes

When talking about the SaaS accounting space in the UK, three companies get all the mentions – but beyond Xero, FreeAgent and KashFlow exists another couple of players that are working away at building viable businesses. It seems like time for an update on those two companies. First up, ClearBooks

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July 11, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

KashFlow Puts Its Funding to Good Use–New Engineering Project and New COO

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday the news broke that KashFlow has allegedly raised funding of £4 million from its existing 40% shareholder, Lord Young. It’s an interesting funding position – while we don’t know any details about how it is structured – it’s a significant amount of money and will allow KashFlow to scale

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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