Team and Concepts

Infobox Company
company_name = Team and Concepts Limited
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = Hong Kong (2003)
location = Hong Kong
key_people = David K. F. Lee, Co-founder and Chairman
industry = web-based software
products = EditGrid
homepage = http://www.tnc.hk/

Team and Concepts (TnC) is a Hong Kong-based company founded by David K. F. Lee and others in 2003. It is known as the provider of the Web 2.0 online spreadsheet, EditGrid.

TnC was founded in 2003 in the height of SARS by a group of young entrepreneurs still in their university studies [cite web
url=http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/relay.jhtml?name=itemdetail&id=HKU348
title=Team and Concepts Ltd.: Managing the Growth of a Small Business
author=Ali Farhoomand & Mary Ho
date=2004-10-05
accessdate=2006-09-03
publisher=Harvard Business School] [cite web
url=http://www.acrc.org.hk/sme/case_showdetails.asp?ct=sme&c=554&cp=857&pt=1&pn=1&lv=en
title=Team and Concepts Limited: Managing the Growth of a Small Business
author=Ali Farhoomand & Mary Ho
date=2004
accessdate=2006-09-03
publisher=Asia Case Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong] . It started as an information service provider for event organiserscite web
url=http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/08/asia_entrepreneurs/source/16.htm
title=David Lee - Chairman & Co-Founder: Team & Concepts Limited
date=2006-08-21
accessdate=2006-09-03
publisher=BusinessWeek] ; its first product, PEM, was an award-winning web-based event scheduling software [cite web
url=http://www.hkcs.org.hk/itawards/year2004/itawards/english/winners.html
title=6th IT Excellence Awards - Winners
date=2004
accessdate=2006-12-22
publisher=Hong Kong Computer Society] . In early 2006, upon securing the Hong Kong Government's funding from the Innovation and Technology Fund [cite web
url=http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/web2/0,39063521,61975896,00.htm
title=Interview with EditGrid's David Lee
date=2006-12-18
accessdate=2006-12-18
publisher=ZDNet Asia] [cite web
url=http://www.itf.gov.hk/eng/Search/proj_summary.asp?prj_code=1750&pno=S/P953/05
title=Project Profile - EditGrid: a Web 2.0 Service for Structured and Intensive Data Collaboration
date=2006-08-09
accessdate=2006-09-03
publisher=Innovation and Technology Fund, the Government of Hong Kong] , it moved into the Web 2.0 business and launched EditGrid to public in April 2006. One of TnC's Founders was nominated by BusinessWeek as one of the 20 "Asia's Best Entrepreneurs under 25" in August 2006cite web
url=http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/aug2006/sb20060818_886243.htm
title=Asia's Young Entrepreneurs
author=Brian Bremner
date=2006-08-21
accessdate=2006-09-03
publisher=BusinessWeek] .

In June 2007, EditGrid announced a $1.25 million series A investment from the WI Harper Groupcite web
url=http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/10/team-and-concepts-raises-125million-series-a/
title=Team and Concepts Raises $1.25million Series A
author=Duncan Riley
publisher=TechCrunch
date=2007-06-10
accessdate=2007-06-14] .

See also

* EditGrid

External links

* [http://www.editgrid.com/ EditGrid]

References