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Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

Wave Nabs Funding–On Free vs Paid

By Ben Kepes on October 26, 2011

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 about before, is a free […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged charles river ventures, cloud computing, freeagent, FreeAgent Central, kashflow, saas, software as a service, wave accounting, xero | 1 Response

Zendesk Scores Series B Funding and Ditches Freemium

Zendesk Scores Series B Funding and Ditches Freemium

By Ben Kepes on August 17, 2009

I’m a big fan of both the Zendesk product offering, and the company. I’ve spent a significant amount of time with the Zendesk crew, written about them since the very early days and had something of an inside view of what makes them tick. In an industry that seems sadly full of wannabe prima donnas, […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, General | Tagged benchmark capital, charles river ventures, Denmark, FriendFeed, peter fenton, springsource, startup, zendesk | 1 Response

There’s Still Money for Good Bets

By Ben Kepes on May 6, 2009

We’ve been hearing for the last six months of the evaporation of venture capital and the dearth of funding options for start-ups. It’s always nice to be able to break news of a company bucking this trend. Zendesk (CloudAve coverage here), is was a Danish based start-up that created a popular help desk tool (so […]

Posted in General, Strategy | Tagged charles river ventures, venture capital, zendesk | 3 Responses

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