Vesess

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Vesess
Type Private
Industry
FoundedMarch 4, 2004;18 years ago (2004-03-04)
in Colombo, Sri Lanka
FoundersLankitha Wimalarathna
Prabhath Sirisena
Headquarters
Colombo
,
Sri Lanka
Area served
Worldwide
Products
Services
Website vesess.com

Vesess is a design and technology company founded in Sri Lanka in 2004. It was incorporated in United States as Vesess Inc. in 2007. [1] [2]

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It provides consultancy services in web design and development, UI and UX design, and online strategy. [3]

Vesess also develops and manages a software-as-a-service product: the online invoicing and billing service Hiveage.

Products

CurdBee

CurdBee was an online invoicing software initially developed as an in-house PHP application to invoice clients of Vesess. [4] A public version was developed using Ruby on Rails and launched in June 2008. [5] [6] It was the first step for Vesess in moving from being a web design agency to a product company. [7]

CurdBee was mainly used by small businesses and freelancers. [8] It had a free plan which supported unlimited invoicing and unlimited clients, with PayPal and Google Checkout as payment gateways. [9] Paid plans had additional features such as multiple payment gateways, recurring invoices, time and expense tracking and custom domains. [10] CurdBee was discontinued in 2014. [11]

Hiveage

Hiveage is an invoicing and billing software-as-a-service that replaced CurdBee in 2014. [12] Like its predecessor, Hiveage started as a freemium service, but changed to a fixed plan pricing strategy in September 2016. [13] It inherited the CurdBee user base, and has grown to cover more than 140 countries. [14]

Vgo

Vgo was a Software as a service launched by Vesess in September 2015, [15] designed for taxi and logistics companies to compete with other vehicle for hire companies such as Uber. [16] It had a web-based management application that supports online booking, automatic and manual dispatching, fleet, staff and customer management, and detailed reporting. [17] Vgo also had set of mobile applications for customers with smartphones to submit orders, and for drivers to be notified of assignments and track their trips. [18]

Vesess and a group of angel investors led by Just In Time Group had invested $1 million into Vgo. [19]

Vgo was discontinued in August 2016. [20]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Lankan startup growing to take on N. America, Europe". The Nation. 28 August 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Pathirana, Sara (March 12, 2013). "Vesess celebrates nine years". Daily News. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Osman, Husain (4 November 2015). "Their startup survived a tsunami and Sri Lanka's fledgling internet. Now it's booming". Tech in Asia. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Bee". 17 June 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  5. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Jason (5 August 2008), Invoice For Free With CurdBee, Lifehacker, retrieved 8 February 2012
  6. ↑ Blitstein, Scott (27 August 2008), CurdBee Could Be The Billing Service For You, GigaOm, retrieved 8 February 2012
  7. ↑ Lorber, Laura (21 June 2010), Managing Technology: CurdBee, The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 8 February 2012
  8. ↑ "The Inside Scoop". 3 February 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  9. ↑ Purdy, Kevin (30 January 2010), Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers, Lifehacker, retrieved 8 February 2012
  10. ↑ Send Invoices, Make Friends and Earn Money with CurdBee Partner Program, Yahoo News, 15 April 2010, retrieved 8 February 2012
  11. ↑ "Attention, CurdBee users!". 5 June 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  12. ↑ "New Hiveage Billing Platform Reduces Small Business Overhead and Boosts Annual Growth up to 20 Percent". Yahoo Finance. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Online Invoicing Service Hiveage Revises Pricing and Supports Non-Profits". 22 September 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  14. ↑ "Hiveage: The Invoicing Platform That Wants to Surpass Freshbooks and Harvest". tech.co. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "Vesess Debuts VGO — a Solution for Taxis to Compete With Uber" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. September 22, 2015.
  16. ↑ Russell, Ishita (November 27, 2015). "Vgo wants to help local taxi operators take on Uber". e27.
  17. ↑ Schmidt, Will (October 1, 2015). "Can Vesess Help Taxis Take on Uber and Lyft?". Tech.co.
  18. ↑ Kaushik, Preetam (October 20, 2015). "10 transport mobile apps that redefine mobility in Asia". Business Insider India.
  19. ↑ Fong, Marla (September 24, 2015). "Vesess Raises $1M, Launches Vgo Platform To Help Taxis Compete With Uber". Tech Drive.
  20. ↑ "Discontinuing Vgo, Our Taxi Dispatch System".

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