{"id":1066,"date":"2013-09-24T07:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T07:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearbooksplc.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2014-01-13T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:51:45","slug":"cloud-funding-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/blog\/cloud-funding-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Funding &#8211; day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 23rd September 2013 marked the launch of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/cloudfunding\">Cloud Funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you hadn&#8217;t noticed, Clear Books plc is raising \u00a3839,913 to grow the business and the day got off to a great start with coverage in the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>As a provider of cloud accounting software, we like numbers. 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