Former Secretary of State, Rt. Hon. Lord Young of Graffham, has agreed to a second round of VC funding for leading UK based online accounting-software company, KashFlow.
One of the UK’s leading accounting software development companies has announced that it has now agreed a second round of capital funding from the The Rt. Hon. Lord Young of Graffham, former Executive Chairman of Cable & Wireless Plc and Sec of State of Trade and Industry.
Since KashFlow received its first round of funding in January 2006 the company has tripled it’s turnover and customer base. The second round of funding will enable the KashFlow management team to achieve further market penetration in its target market of small-to-medium-sized-enterprises as well as strengthening its ‘direct to accountants’ division that launched in late 2006.
The unique way in which the company prioritises and develops additional functionality, by asking users to choose what they want to see happen first, will also benefit from the funding as more programming and development employees are to be taken on to service demand.
Speaking about agreeing to the second round of funding Lord Young commented, “KashFlow has come a long way since I first invested in early 2006 and this is evident from the larger customer base, increased profits and the fact it is now seen as a real player in the industry”.
He continued, “The product has matured a lot over the past 18 months – going from an innovative bookkeeping product to a fully featured accounting platform. The company has a strong managing director in Duane Jackson and I’ve no doubt he has the vision, skills and ability to drive the business forward”.
KashFlow launched it’s flagship product, an online tool specifically designed to help owner-managers in small businesses manage their accounts, in mid 2005. Since that time it has quickly won a significant share of the valuable accounting software market along with launching a new direct to accountant division in late 2006..
Duane Jackson, founder and Managing Director of KashFlow commented, “This has been a phenomenal few years both for KashFlow and myself and the second round of funding will ensure that we can facilitate and enable the growth plans we have in place”.
KashFlow is an online tool specifically designed to help owner managers in small businesses manage their accounts. KashFlow's aim is to take the boredom out of managing a company's accounts and to make the day to day tasks easier to achieve so that less small businesses neglect this area.
KashFlow keeps accounts management simple: it requires no installation, software training or prior knowledge of accountancy.
All users benefit from a free, no obligation 60-day trial. The monthly subscription price is £15.99 a month - including free support and upgrades.
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In June 2008, KashFlow became the first accounting software package to be certified by PayPal for integration with its payment platform. PayPal and KashFlow now work in partnership to provide a seamless, end-to-end, payment processing and accounting system.
In October 2008 KashFlow won a Business Software Satisfaction award, judged entirely by customer feedback, for the category of small business accounting - beating the likes of Sage 50, Quickbooks Pro and MYOB. Statistics revealed by the awards organisers show that KashFlow has a 70% share of the web-based accounting software market in the UK.
KashFlow has received two rounds of venture capital funding from their now chairman, Lord Young of Graffham. Lord Young is a former Secretary of State for Trade & Industry and ex Chairman of Cable and Wireless.
KashFlow is simple to operate, with users instinctively knowing where to click to perform almost any accountancy task.
Owner managers are able to effectively manage their accounts with no need for software training or prior knowledge of accountancy.
KashFlow has been featured in the likes of the Financial Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, BBC Radio and all the leading accounting titles.
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