Guru.com

Guru.com is a freelance marketplace It allows companies to find freelance workers for commissioned work. Founded in 1998 inPittsburgh as eMoonlighter.com and still headquartered there.

Guru
Type	Private
Industry	Internet Service Marketplace Workforce Management Crowdsourcing
Founded	Pittsburgh 1998
Founder	Inder Guglani
Headquarters	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Website	Guru.com

Guru.com
Alexa rank	3,517 (April 2014)

History

Guru Inc. was founded in 1999 in San Francisco as an online clearing house for high tech workers seeking short-term contracts. The company, led by brothers Jon and James Slavet, raised $3M in angel funding and a further $16M in a full venture round led by Greylock Partners and August Capital.In a May 2000 interview, Paul Saffo cited Guru.com as an example of a company using the Internet to provide new kinds of services where individuals negotiated directly with potential employers.In 2002, Guru developed the Smart Match technology which matches résumés and other information about job applicants to jobs. It also developed a candidate profiling system using techniques from Industrial and organizational psychology  to better understand a candidate's suitability for a particular job.

The company was acquired in December 2002 by Unicru , a human resources software company based in Portland, Oregon. Guru's technology and staff remained with Unicru, focused on software to help large employers assess and hire job applicants.

Merger & Present day

Unicru sold the Guru.com domain name and logo to eMoonlighter.com, and eMoonlighter was renamed Guru.com. Guru.com directly connects businesses and employees in 160 different fields.