Founder thinks big after edocr sale

TECHNOLOGY start-up specialist Manoj Ranaweera has sold his online document storing and sharing business edocr.com to a US business.

Ranaweera, who founded the Manchester business in 2007, exited edocr last week. New owner Accusoft, a provider of document, content and imaging solutions, plans to grow the enterprise and also will offer its services for free.

Jack Berlin, chief executive of Florida-based Accusoft said: “edocr provides Accusoft with a wealth of information and resources for a customer base that’s largely made up of small businesses.

“We plan to make edocr free for use and offer Accusoft Cloud Services  as a part of their document workflow.”

Used by nearly 200,000 professionals and businesses, edocr empowers publication of marketing, sales, operations, customer service and financial documents for easier and wider reach of prospects and customers.  Customers  include computer giant Dell and accountants Crowe Clark Whitehill.
 
Ranaweera, who has will support Accusoft post acquisition in the short term said: “Since founding edocr in 2007, our mission has been to find new and exciting ways to provide maximum return for documents which could be shared publicly.

“We achieved this via not just creating a destination site loved by professionals and businesses from 200+ countries, but extended the functionality into many partner solutions from CRM, customer support to marketing automation. We are very excited to join forces with Accusoft and take edocr to next stage.”

Ranaweea said he and his team are focused on a new venture, UnifiedVU, a business software venture.

He added: “The plan is to build a £100m business over the next seven to 10 years taking my 10 years’ experience in tech startups forward.”