99designs is an online graphic design marketplace headquartered in San
Francisco with offices in Melbourne, Berlin, Paris, London and Rio de Janeiro.
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Industry
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Graphic design
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Founded
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Melbourne, Australia,
2008
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Founder
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Mark Harbottle
Matt Mickiewicz |
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Headquarters
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San Francisco, United States
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Number of locations
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Australia, Europe, United States
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Website
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Services
The company creates their
products by crowd sourcing, as customers
can solicit designers to submit designs for contests to create products such as
websites, t-shirts, or logos. The customer then chooses the best design from
the pool of submitted entries and the selected designer will win a cash
payment. Customers also have the option of working with individual designers by
purchasing design templates from 99designs’ Readymade logo store or by visiting
Swiftly for quick graphic design fixes and steal logo's.
Background
The company was co-founded in
2008 by Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz in Melbourne, Australia.The company opened its U.S. office in 2010, and in 2011 the company
secured $35 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and a handful of angel investors.
In 2012 99designs acquired the
European creative services marketplace 12designer.The following year the
company established their European headquarters in Berlin and launched
localized versions of its services in German, French, Spanish, Dutch and
Italian. The company also acquired Brazilian design marketplace Logo Chef the
same year.
Awards
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Webby People's
Voice Award for Best Web Service and Application (2010)
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