Company:Vesess

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Short description: Sri Lankan design and technology company
Vesess
TypePrivate
Industry
FoundedMarch 4, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-04)
in Colombo, Sri Lanka
FoundersLankitha Wimalarathna
Prabhath Sirisena
Headquarters
Colombo
,
Sri Lanka
Area served
Worldwide
Products
Services
Websitevesess.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]

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". 28 August 2011. http://www.nation.lk/2011/08/28/newsfe6.htm. Retrieved 18 October 2015. 
  2. ↑ Pathirana, Sara (March 12, 2013). "Vesess celebrates nine years". http://archives.dailynews.lk/2013/03/12/bus14.asp. 
  3. ↑ Osman, Husain (4 November 2015). "Their startup survived a tsunami and Sri Lanka's fledgling internet. Now it's booming". https://www.techinasia.com/startup-survived-tsunami-fledgling-internet-now-booming/. Retrieved 6 November 2015. 
  4. ↑ "The Bee". 17 June 2008. http://vesess.com/blog/the-bee/. Retrieved 8 February 2012. 
  5. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Jason (5 August 2008), Invoice For Free With CurdBee, Lifehacker, http://lifehacker.com/399827/invoice-for-free-with-curdbee, retrieved 8 February 2012 
  6. ↑ Blitstein, Scott (27 August 2008), CurdBee Could Be The Billing Service For You, GigaOm, http://gigaom.com/2008/08/27/curdbee-could-be-the-billing-service-for-you/, retrieved 8 February 2012 
  7. ↑ Lorber, Laura (21 June 2010), Managing Technology: CurdBee, The Wall Street Journal, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704113504575264171972676204, retrieved 8 February 2012 
  8. ↑ "The Inside Scoop". 3 February 2009. https://www.cnbc.com/id/29000797/Sites_of_the_Day_Cheap_Hotels_Email_Reminders_and_More. Retrieved 8 February 2012. 
  9. ↑ Purdy, Kevin (30 January 2010), Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers, Lifehacker, http://lifehacker.com/5460247/top-10-tips-and-tools-for-freelancers, retrieved 8 February 2012 
  10. ↑ Send Invoices, Make Friends and Earn Money with CurdBee Partner Program, Yahoo News, 15 April 2010, https://news.yahoo.com/send-invoices-friends-earn-money-curdbee-partner-program.html, retrieved 8 February 2012 
  11. ↑ "Attention, CurdBee users!". 5 June 2014. https://www.hiveage.com/blog/attention-curdbee-users/. 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. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hiveage-billing-platform-reduces-small-140000075.html. Retrieved 4 August 2014. 
  13. ↑ "Online Invoicing Service Hiveage Revises Pricing and Supports Non-Profits". 22 September 2016. http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/33154991/online-invoicing-service-hiveage-revises-pricing-and-supports-non-profits. Retrieved 24 September 2016. 
  14. ↑ "Hiveage: The Invoicing Platform That Wants to Surpass Freshbooks and Harvest". tech.co. 14 May 2014. http://tech.co/hiveage-launches-out-of-public-beta-today-2014-05. 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". https://e27.co/vgo-wants-help-local-taxi-operators-take-uber-20151127/. 
  17. ↑ Schmidt, Will (October 1, 2015). "Can Vesess Help Taxis Take on Uber and Lyft?". https://tech.co/news/vesess-vgo-taxi-logistics-platform-2015-10. 
  18. ↑ Kaushik, Preetam (October 20, 2015). "10 transport mobile apps that redefine mobility in Asia". https://www.businessinsider.in/10-transport-mobile-apps-that-redefine-mobility-in-asia/articleshow/49466454.cms. 
  19. ↑ Fong, Marla (September 24, 2015). "Vesess Raises $1M, Launches Vgo Platform To Help Taxis Compete With Uber". https://techdrive.co/vesess-raises-1m-launches-vgo-platform-to-help-taxis-compete-with-uber/. 
  20. ↑ "Discontinuing Vgo, Our Taxi Dispatch System". https://www.vesess.com/vgo/. 

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