Tokyo-based Invoicing Service MakeLeaps Gets a Boost, Picks Up Competitor Noroshi

Webnet IT Corporation, the operators of the multilingual invoicing system Makeleaps, is announcing today that it has acquired Noroshi, a competing quoting/invoicing service from 7-bites that caters to freelancers and small businesses in Japan.

Noroshi is just over a year old, having been in operation since July 2011. 7-bites’s Shouta Sawada commented about coming under the MakeLeaps umbrella:

We considered multiple companies to approach to discuss acquisition before we decided upon MakeLeaps as they have been developing and operating, specifically for quotes and invoice since 2009, have great user support, and their continuous development have led us to decide on MakeLeaps as the best new home for Noroshi’s data and users.

MakeLeaps co-founder Jason Winder tells TechInAsia today that the acquisition of Noroshi helps solidify MakeLeaps moving forward in the next year:

Our target was having 10,000 businesses using MakeLeaps by August 2013, and this acquisition helped us make significant progress towards this goal.

MakeLeaps itself was launched back in October 2011, and has been incrementally improving since then, offering an alternative to Microsoft Office solutions (*yawn*) when creating quotes and invoices.