Tradeshift Shifts Up A Gear With Instant Payments For Businesses

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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
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Tradeshift, the free invoicing platform aiming to be a kind of social network for B2B processes, broke cover last year and since raised a significant $7m round from Notion Capital among others, such as PayPal.

Dubbed “Skype for invoicing”, now Tradeshift is shifting up a gear to address a big problem. Getting paid fast is probably the biggest problem companies face today, and its new the Instant Payment solution is designed to address that. The new service will be offered to selected suppliers in beta and will roll out over next six months, but, we can give exclusive early access for Techcrunch readers. To qualify, register for a free Tradeshift account and then go to tradeshift.com/instantpayments