Erply

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Erply
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Type of site
point of sale, inventory management
Available inEnglish
Founded Estonia
OwnerKristjan Hiiemaa via Erply Limited
Industry software
URL http://www.erply.com
CommercialYes
Launched2009
Current statusActive

Erply is an enterprise software company which provides cloud-based point of sale and inventory management technology. [1] It was founded in Estonia by Kristjan Hiiemaa in 2009. [2]

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History

In 2009, the company won Seedcamp, a European early stage investment program. [3] [4] [5]

In March 2010, they received $2 million in funding from Saul Klein (Index Ventures), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), Dave McClure and Kenny van Zant. [6] [7] [8]

Description

The service was initially a retail payment solution for small to medium-sized businesses. [9] They have since expanded to larger box retailers, and provide systems for point of sales, inventory control, billing, and other retail-related technologies. [10] The service retails for $74 per month on average. [11]

In August 2011, the company released a mobile credit card reader for handheld devices like Apple iPads. [12] [13]

Reception

Erply has been profiled in media publications such as The Wall Street Journal , the Financial Times and the BBC. [1] [6] [14] Erply as one of the top ten European startups to watch in 2011. [11] [15]

References

  1. 1 2 Yiannopoulos, Milo. Out of the Starting Blocks. The Wall Street Journal. December 8, 2010.
  2. ↑ Kim, Ryan. Card swipe dongle or NFC? Erply chooses both Archived 2012-01-04 at the Wayback Machine . Giga OM. August 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ Butcher, Mike. Seedcamp announces its six winners for 2009. TechCrunch Europe. September 25, 2009.
  4. ↑ And the winners are….Seedcamp congratulates the 2009 winning teams Archived 2012-01-02 at the Wayback Machine . Seedcamp. September 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ Bunz, Mercedes. Eastern Europe takes over Seedcamp. The Guardian. September 25, 2009.
  6. 1 2 "A venture capitalist's European mission". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  7. ↑ Cox, Mark. Erply aims to be Skype of business software market [ permanent dead link ]. eChannelLine. March 29, 2010.
  8. ↑ "Estonian start-up Erply raises $2M from US and European VCs | Science|Business". sciencebusiness.net. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  9. ↑ Erply POS Solution. Web Wholesaler Magazine. October 2011.
  10. ↑ Features Archived 2011-12-25 at the Wayback Machine . Erply.com.
  11. 1 2 Rusli, Evelyn. Erply: Skype of Business Software?. TechCrunch. March 22, 2010.
  12. ↑ King, Rachel. Erply takes on Square, Verifone with new mobile payment device. ZDNet. August 23, 2011.
  13. ↑ Toor, Amar. ERPLY's mobile credit card reader handles NFC payments on an iPad, obliterates the check-out line. Engadget. August 23, 2011.
  14. ↑ Graham, Fiona. Tablet time: Tablet computers take on the workplace. BBC News. March 21, 2011.
  15. ↑ Finley, Klint. 5 Enterprise Startups to Watch in 2011 # 3: Erply Archived 2011-12-27 at the Wayback Machine . ReadWriteWeb. December 29, 2010.
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