{"id":20179,"date":"2014-09-01T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/?p=20179"},"modified":"2014-09-01T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:14:21","slug":"cloud-funding-ii-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/blog\/cloud-funding-ii-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Funding II Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy summer for Clear Books plc and following on from our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/2014\/08\/29\/clear-books-hold-first-ever-agm\/\">first AGM as a plc<\/a> I wanted to add some further background on the progress of Cloud Funding II.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/cloudfunding2\/\">Cloud Funding II<\/a>\u00a0raised approximately \u00a3700k in 20 days which was a fantastic result. 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