Freelancer.com branches into freight
The acquisition of enterprise freight marketplace Channel 40 will help underpin a new service from Freelancer, the company said today.
The acquisition of enterprise freight marketplace Channel 40 will help underpin a new service from Freelancer, the company said today.
Freelancer Limited – the Australian company behind online services marketplace Freelancer.com and payments business Escrow.com – has announced a record net revenue of $26.2m for the first half of 2016, up 56 per cent on the same period in 2015.
Freelancer will acquire Escrow.com for US$7.5 million, the ASX-listed skills marketplace said today.
Freelancer.com has made its second acquisition this year, picking up Spanish language online skills market Projectlinkr.com.
ASX-listed online skills market place Freelancer has acquired the assets of defunct Israeli website DoNanza.
ASX-listed online skills marketplace Freelancer reported a 39 per cent increase in revenue for the 12 months ending 31 December.
Australian startup Freelancer.com has applied to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) as it seeks to accelerate the company’s growth.
Funding for startups that need to raise over $1 million is “pretty woeful” in Australia, according to Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie.
Freelancer.com is an online outsourcing marketplace. Almost from its founding in 2009, the company has relied on Amazon's public cloud to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service.
When Freelancer.com launched in 2009, CEO Matt Barrie and his team knew the audience for the online outsourcing marketplace was big. And it was only going to grow. The market opportunity was "going to be phenomenally huge," says David Harrison, the company's vice-president of engineering.
The growth in freelance jobs for the Android mobile platform is outpacing the venerable iPhone and iPad, and HTML5 demand is snowballing at more than 30 per cent, according to skills marketplace Freelancer.com.