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Brightpearl

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Brightpearl, formerly known as Pearl, develops a leading end-to-end web based solution for SMEs and growing businesses that provides a fully integrated accounting, CRM, order and stock management, ecommerce and helpdesk capability. The Bristol-based British company was set up by Chris Tanner, serial entrepreneur, in 2007.

Customers can use just one module or the whole platform, which is designed to integrate seamlessly with key Web services such as Gmail, Google Apps, MailChimp and many others. Brightpearl provides corporations with a way to optimize their total business processes, generating significant time savings in management and administration. The Bristol-based British company was set up by Chris Tanner, serial entrepreneur, in 2007. Pearl is a privately owned business, funded by Eden Ventures and Notion Capital. Brightpearl’s board members include proven entrepreneurs and industry experts such as original BBC2 Dragon Doug Richard and Salman Malik former Executive Director at Siebel Systems.

Pearl participated as a finalist in Seedcamp 2009.

Milestones

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  Brightpearl added Salman Malik as CEO. (10/5/10)
  Posted 10/6/10 at 7:53am
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  Brightpearl added Salman Malik as Board Director. (5/1/10)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 1:16am
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  Brightpearl added Ben Halstead as CTO. (5/1/10)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 1:16am
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  Brightpearl added Chris Chapmam as Board Director. (7/7/09)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 1:15am
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  Brightpearl added Doug Richard as Board Director. (7/7/09)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 1:13am
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  Brightpearl added Andrew Mulvenna as Co-Founder. (5/8/08)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 1:12am
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  Brightpearl added Chris Tanner as Founder. (7/22/07)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 1:04am
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  Brightpearl received $5M in Series A funding. (5/25/11)
  Posted 5/25/11 at 5:27am via techcrunch.com
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  Brightpearl — Brightpearl announces hire of new CEO. A high profile Silicon Valley entrepreneur has shunned a return to the US in favour of becoming CEO of a Bristol-based business software company Brightpearl. (10/5/10)
  Posted 10/6/10 at 7:47am via co.uk
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  Brightpearl — Brightpearl selected for Seedcamp week 2009 NB. Brightpearl was formerly known as Pearl Software (9/1/09)
  Posted 9/27/10 at 1:28am via thisispearl.com

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1. Brightpearl scores further $5m from Notion and Eden for its cloud-based solution for SMEs (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Pearl selected for Seedcamp week 2009 (blog.thisispearl.com) [edit]
3. Bristol business software start up attracts Silicon Valley veteran (telegraph.co.uk) [edit]