Freelancer.com

Freelancer is a global outsourcing marketplace, which allows potential employers to post jobs that freelancers can then bid to complete. Founded in 2009, its headquarters is located in Sydney, Australia, though it also has offices in Vancouver, London, Buenos Aires, Manila and Jakarta.

Freelancer
Type	Public
Traded as	ASX: FLN
Founded	2009
Headquarters	Freelancer Level 20 680 George Street Sydney, Australia, Australia
Country of origin	Australia
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Matt Barrie
CEO	Matt Barrie
Key people	Matt Barrie, CEO Darren Williams, CTO Neil Katz, CFO David Harrison, Vice President of Engineering Willix Halim, Vice President of Growth
Industry	Freelance marketplace, Online outsourcing, Employment website
Employees	350 (Feb 2014)
Website	Freelancer.com
Alexa rank	452 (April 2014)
Type of site	Freelance marketplace
Registration	Required
Users	14 million+
Available in	English, German, French,Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese,Spanish, Turkish, Filipino,Dutch
Launched	2009
Current status	Active

Description

Freelancer is a marketplace where employers and employees are able to find each other. The site allows employers to post work to get done. Anybody is then able to offer quotes to complete the project, upon which point the original employer is able to award the work.

Freelancer has different levels of membership. Free accounts can only bid on 8 projects per month and cannot make direct deposit withdrawals. Higher tiers of paid accounts get additional bids, direct deposit withdrawals, and other features. 

Freelancer takes a 10% fee from all projects for most levels of membership, with a minimum fee of $5.

Freelancer uses a "rewards" system where freelancers earn XP for performing actions such as "Like us on Facebook"; by earning XP the user can "level up" his or her account and unlock rewards, including basic features such as being able to bid more times per month. However, only paid accounts actually get the benefits of these rewards.

Background

Freelancer has acquired several outsourcing marketplaces including Get A Freelancer.com and EUFreelance.com (founded by Magnus Tibell in 2004, Sweden), LimeExchange (a former business of Lime Labs LLC, USA),Scriptlance.com (founded by Rene Trescases in 2001, Canada)one of the early pioneers in freelancing, Freelancer.de Booking Center (Germany), Freelancer.co.uk (United Kingdom),Webmaster-talk.com (USA), a forum for webmasters, and vWorker (founded by Ian Ippolito, USA).

As of 8 January 2013, the company has set up 25 regional marketplaces with local language, customer service and currency support including the United States (Global), United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Philippines,India and Latin America.On 2 April 2014, Freelancer acquired Ukraine based digital content marketplace-Fantero.

Awards

·         2012 Deloitte Australia Technology Fast 50

·         2012 Silver Stevie Award, International Business Awards

·         2012 People's Voice Webby Award for Employment, 16th Annual Webby Awards

·         2011 Webby Award for Employment, People's Voice Award, 15th Annual Webby Awards

·         2011 BRW Fast Starters

·         2011 BRW Fast 100

·         2010 Best Export Achievement, People's Choice Award, 17th Annual AIMIA Awards

·         2010 Anthill Cool Company Awards: Best Online Business