Collective), so there’s a trend towards increasing specialism.Ĭollective launches a SaaS marketplace for freelancer teams There’s also a growing number of startups focusing on helping freelancer teams specifically (e.g. So Worksome is by no means alone in offering tech tools to streamline the interface between freelancers and businesses.Ī few others that spring to mind include Lystable (now Kalo), Malt, Fiverr - or, for techie job matching specifically, the likes of HackerRank - plus, on the blue collar work side, Jobandtalent. There are also an increasing number of players in this space - buoyed by a new flush of VC dollars chasing the ‘future of work’, whatever hybrid home-office flexible shape that might take. It had raised just under $6M prior to thus round, per Crunchbase, and also counts some (unnamed) Google executives among its earlier investors.įreelancer platforms (and marketplaces) aren’t new, of course. The business started life in Copenhagen - and its Series A has a distinctly Nordic flavor, with investment coming from the Danish business angel and investor on the local version of the Dragons’ Den TV program Løvens Hule the former Minister for Higher Education and Science, Tommy Ahlers and family home manufacturer Lind & Risør. (And also that they are paid faster than they otherwise might be, given it takes care of their payroll so they don’t have to chase payments from employers.) The startup also says it’s concerned with looking out for (and looking after) its freelancer talent pool - saying it wants to create “a world of meaningful work” on its platform, and ensure freelancers are paid fairly and competitively. “When companies hire dozens or hundreds of freelancers at one time, processes can get very complicated,” he adds, arguing that on compliance and payments Worksome “takes on a much greater responsibility than other freelancing platforms to make big hires easier”. It makes matches between companies and skilled freelancers, which the businesses go on to trust, form relationships with and come back to time and time again,” he goes on. “Worksome helps onboard people who will provide necessary skills and will be integral to longer-term business operations. Worksome focuses on helping medium/large companies - who are working with at least 20+ freelancers at a time - fill vacancies within teams rather than helping companies outsource projects, per Petersen, who suggests the latter is the focus for the majority of freelancer platforms. Worksome tackles this industry head on with a better, faster and simpler solution to manage large freelancer and contractor workforces.” “These largely analogue businesses manage complex compliance and processes around hiring and managing freelance workforces with handheld processes and outdated technology that is not built for managing fluid workforces. “Most multinational enterprises manage flexible workers using legacy MSPs,” says CEO and co-founder Morten Petersen (one of the Xooglers). It says it’s seeing traction with large enterprise customers that have traditionally used Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to manage and pay external workforces - and views employment agency giants like Randstad, Adecco and Manpower as ripe targets for disruption. The 2017 founded startup, which has a couple of ex-Googlers in its leadership team, has built a platform to connect freelancers looking for professional roles with employers needing tools to find and manage freelancer talent. More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform” - after racking up 10x growth in revenue since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a remote working boom.
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