Top 10 Freelance Marketplace startups

Updated: January 07, 2024 | Editor: Fernando Lopez

Freelance marketplace startups are disrupting the market by introducing innovative features such as AI-powered talent matching, secure payment systems, real-time project tracking, dispute resolution mechanisms, and seamless communication tools, revolutionizing how businesses connect with freelance professionals, hire remote talent, and manage project-based work, challenging traditional freelancing platforms and offering more efficient and transparent marketplaces for freelancers and businesses to collaborate.
1
Upwork
Country: USA | Funding: $168.8M
Upwork is the world’s largest work marketplace, connecting millions of businesses with independent talent around the globe.
2
Braintrust
Country: USA | Funding: $123.5M
Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects technical and design talents with organizations.
3
Fiverr
Country: Israel | Funding: $111M
Fiverr is a marketplace for creative and professional services.
4
99designs
Country: USA | Funding: $45M
99designs is the global creative platform that makes it easy for designers and clients to work together create designs they love.
5
Guru
Country: USA | Funding: $41M
Guru is an online marketplace allowing businesses to find support from freelancers worldwide.
6
Freelancer.com
Country: Australia | Funding: A$37.5M
Freelancer is the worlds largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and projects.
7
Worksome
Country: Denmark | Funding: $22.9M
Enterprise platform that connects companies with top independent workers, eliminating friction of onboarding, billing, and payment.
8
Peopleperhour
Country: UK | Funding: $10.5M
PeoplePerHour is a marketplace connecting small businesses and freelancers.
9
Awesomic
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $2.8M
Awesomic is an app that pulls awesome companies to cosmic designers like a huge magnet. No hiring, management, or stress.
10
Joberty
Country: Serbia | Funding: $350K
Joberty is a workplace community for developers.
11
Remotewx
Country: Germany
Remotewx allows to find remote jobs and connect with companies that offer you the freedom to work remotely from home or places around the world.
12
Parttimerz
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Premium grade freelancing platform built for startups and visionary entrepreneurs.
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com