Brightpearl

Brightpearl describes itself as a Retail Operating System used by multichannel merchants and wholesalers to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and manage inventory, order fulfillment, shipping, and accounting through its Automation Engine. The company was founded in 2007 by university friends Andrew Mulvenna and Chris Tanner, who had previously founded the skateboard company Lush Longboards in 1999 and built their own business management system before selling the skateboard company to focus on that system.

Brightpearl was founded in 2007. University friends Andrew Mulvenna and Chris Tanner had founded Lush Longboards in 1999; lacking the budget for an expensive business management system, they built their own, and eventually sold the skateboard company to concentrate on the system they developed. By late 2009, the company had over 100 paying customers. Brightpearl raised $24.5 million of private sector investment across four rounds dating back to 2010, taking on its first outside investor, Eden Ventures, later joined by Notion Capital. By late 2011, over 6,000 companies had signed up to Brightpearl's cloud-based business management platform. An angel funding round was followed by a Series A transaction worth $5 million in 2011 and a 2013 Series B deal bringing in $8 million. In 2014, Notion Capital and Eden Ventures were joined by MMC Ventures as equity backers; in the summer, Brightpearl raised $10 million in a funding round led by MMC Ventures, alongside participation from Quayle Munro and existing investors Eden Ventures and Notion Capital, and the business expanded its international presence with the establishment of a US base of operations. Also in 2014, Andrew Porter joined Brightpearl as Chief Information Officer, and after five successful years in the role joined Brightpearl's board in July 2019. In 2015, Fergus Gloster joined Brightpearl's board in May 2015 as Non Executive Director.

• 2021.10.15

  Reported2021.10.15

  Shopify partners with ERP providers for Global ERP Program[5]Shopify与ERP提供商合作推出Global ERP Programtechradar.com

  Shopify named Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite, Infor, Acumatica and Brightpearl as the first ERP partners in its Global ERP Program.

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2021.09.17

  Brightpearl acquires Inventory Planner[6]Brightpearl收购Inventory Plannerprnewswire.com

  Brightpearl acquired Inventory Planner, a demand-planning tool for e-commerce retailers.

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