Tradeshift
Encyclopedia
Tradeshift is a web based
business network founded by Christian Lanng, Mikkel Hippe Brun and Gert Sylvest. The network was launched in May 2010, and used in more than 150 countries by February 2011. The project has gained media attention in online magazines, including Wired and Financial Times.
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who is the Chairman of Tradeshift, Jon Bosak
who co-created XML and is on the technical advisory board of Tradeshift, along with Marten Mickos
, Stephan Glaenzer
and Klaus Lovgreen
as angel investors.
Web application
A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...
business network founded by Christian Lanng, Mikkel Hippe Brun and Gert Sylvest. The network was launched in May 2010, and used in more than 150 countries by February 2011. The project has gained media attention in online magazines, including Wired and Financial Times.
Background
The founders all have a background from the Danish public sector, where they created the world's first large scale peer-to-peer infrastructure for e-business. A project that was nominated for the European e-gov award in 2009. The founders also had leading roles (Governing board member, Technical Director) in the European Commission project PEPPOL, which is aiming to enable cross-border electronic trade inside the European UnionEuropean Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
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Team
The Tradeshift project has attracted a range of notable figures such as Morten LundMorten Lund
Morten Lund, is an entrepreneur from Copenhagen, Denmark. Along with Soren Kenner, Lund is founder and managing partner of LundKenner, a venture capital firm focusing on technology ventures...
who is the Chairman of Tradeshift, Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak led the creation of the XML specification at the W3C. From 1996–2008, he worked for Sun Microsystems.-XML:Tim Bray, who was one of the editors of the XML specification, has this to say in his note on Bosak in his annotated version of the specification:In a 1999 posting to the xml-dev...
who co-created XML and is on the technical advisory board of Tradeshift, along with Marten Mickos
Marten Mickos
Mårten Gustaf Mickos was chief executive officer of MySQL AB. He served as chief executive officer from January 2001 to February 2008, when Sun Microsystems bought MySQL Inc and MySQL AB. He served as senior vice president of the database group at Sun Microsystems until March 2009...
, Stephan Glaenzer
Stephan Glaenzer
Stefan Glänzer is a German entrepreneur and investor, specialising in technology based companies and internet start-ups. His newest venture is as Partner of early-stage VC fund and co-founder of White Bear Yard in London's east end, a new style incubator for the European internet scene...
and Klaus Lovgreen
Klaus Lovgreen
Klaus Lovgren founded Arabian Modern Equipment Est. in Abu Dhabi in 1993 together with Saif Al-Suwaidi. In 1996 they launched AME Info as a CD-ROM business directory for the Middle East...
as angel investors.