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  • On Small Business Accounting, Yodlee, Perceptions and Critical Mass

    April 5, 2013

    Business
    Bank, Customer, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, intuit, New Zealand, Xero, Yodlee
     

    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…

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  • FreeAgent Acquires 60mo–Plans US Expansion

    May 3, 2012

    Business
    60mo, accounting, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, Xero
     

    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…

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  • FreeAgent Eases Life for Freelancers and their Expenses Conundrum

    January 23, 2012

    Business
    Expense, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, Invoice, Xero
     

    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…

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  • Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

    October 26, 2011

    Business
    Charles River Ventures, cloud computing, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, SaaS, Software as a Service, wave accounting, Xero
     

    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,…

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  • FreeAgent Nabs Series B

    September 13, 2011

    Business
    Ed Molyneux, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, Software as a Service, Xero
     

    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…

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  • LiquidAccounts and ClearBooks Update

    August 19, 2011

    Business
    clearbooks, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, liquidaccounts, MYOB, Software as a Service, Xero
     

    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…

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

    July 11, 2011

    Business
    Application programming interface, Duane Jackson, FreeAgent, FreeAgent Central, JSON, kashflow, OAuth, user interface, Xero
     

    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…

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