Vend
Best Retail Point of Sale Systems
Shareholding: 1.7%*
First Investment: August 2015
Vend provides cloud-based point-of-sale software that includes ecommerce, inventory management, customer loyalty and analytics. It helps retailers large and small manage and grow their businesses. It targets retailers with multiple stores by providing powerful back office, analytics and inventory functions. Vend integrates with a large number of payment providers, has partnerships with Apple and Xero and has over 20,000 stores using its software. Vend has offices in Auckland, Melbourne, London and Toronto. LWCM provided earlier advice with governance and assistance with executive recruitment, but is no longer active in assisting Vend.
Recent News and Updates
- Take some inspiration from these Kiwis taking on the world – 02 September 2019
- IPO talk starts to bubble around Vend – 30 September 2019
- Spark appoints Future Director – 18 November 2019
- Reviews site names A/NZ’s top 25 software houses – 28 November 2019
- Vend fights off well-known ‘patent troll’ in US – 02 December 2019
*Fully diluted shareholding after accounting for employee options