Thursday, June 28, 2007

EditGrid Raises Series a Round of Financing from WI Harper

Hong Kong (PRWEB) June 12, 2007 -- Team and Concepts Limited (TnC), makers of EditGrid, a leading provider of online collaborative spreadsheets, today announced the closing of a US$1.25M Series A financing with WI Harper acting as sole investor. In addition to a vast majority of the standard spreadsheet features, EditGrid provides online real-time group collaboration capabilities and easy integration with existing applications, combined with an easy-to-use interface and compatibility with a wide range of traditional spreadsheet formats.

EditGrid currently supports 500+ built-in functions (representing the vast majority of functions commonly used in Excel), and supports all major browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Maxthon without the need to install any third-party software. In addition, its real-time collaboration functionality allows workgroups to efficiently edit spreadsheets simultaneously and have changes be reflected in real time across all collaborators' screens, while being able to support multiple levels of undo and sophisticated user permission controls. Furthermore, EditGrid supports remote data functionality, allowing users to retrieve live data on the web to be used in various designated cells and calculations. EditGrid supports a wide variety of spreadsheet formats, including Excel, CSV, Gnumeric, OpenOffice.org, Lotus 1-2-3, and others.

"We're extremely excited to have completed our first major round of financing, which is a significant milestone that will give us the resources to further our innovations and really drive user adoption. We believe that this will allow EditGrid to become the best online spreadsheet available," said David Lee, Chairman and Co-founder of TnC. "We're also extremely happy to have WI Harper as our investor and partner going forward. In addition, our list of partners has been growing almost on a weekly basis, and we're confident that this trend will continue."

"We've been extremely impressed at the EditGrid team, their technical capabilities and accomplishments, and the sheer potential of the Company," added David Zhang, Managing Director at WI Harper. "Particularly when looking at the rapid growth of the Software as a Service (SaaS) market, and the fact that EditGrid has the potential to revolutionize the way we look at spreadsheets, we are extremely enthusiastic about the future prospects of this investment in the EditGrid team."

http://www.prweb.com/releases/venturecapital/editgrid/prweb532377.htm