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- 2. Table of Contents 1.Introduction 2.Purpose 4.Use case 5.Transportation 7.Consumer Goods 8.Space 9.Personal Service 10.Professional Service 11.Comment 12.Reference 6.Finance 3.What’s Sharing Economy
- 3. About me Fumiya Miura Living in San Francisco/Bay area in order to learn what Silicon Valley is in firsthand. I am interested in Sharing Economy, Subscription -Services and Blockchain. The purpose of making this material is that I want to get deeply knowledge in this industry and I just want to know what kind of startups are succeeding and existing.Through this material, I learned how to grow sharing economy in the past. Also, learned how to grow the market in the future. I am planning to make material about subscription services as well. I want to establish our company in near the future therefore I am staying in here. Introduction Born on December 20th in 1995. Blog Media →here →here →here(JP) →here →here →here(EN)
- 4. Purpose 1. To research what sharing economy is and to know there is a potential to grow in the market or not. While I am living in current generation, the opportunity to use p2p services is getting to be increased like UBER, Lyft and Airbnb. From my experience, the services is purely useful and cheaper than others had already existed, which means those services have a potential to allow people’s life more convenience and more comfortable. I just contribute to make people’s lifestyle comfortable. And I believe that market place of sharing economy will be continuously expanded in the future. 2. To know what kind of companies are existing and dead. Although I am using p2p services in my life, there are many companies existing that I just don’t know. To join sharing economy market, I have to know what kind of companies can exist and how growing they are. When I can know those information, I can fight this area.
- 5. What is “Sharing Economy”? The sharing economy is an economic model often defined as a peer-to-peer (P2P) based activity of acquiring, providing or sharing access to goods and services that are facilitated by a community based on-line platform. Collaborative consumption or the sharing economy refers rather to resource circulation systems which allow a consumer two-sided role, in which consumers may act as both providers of resources or obtainers of resources
- 6. Why is “Sharing Economy” pervasive? 2. Rampant spread of poverty: These resulted to corresponding increases in unemployment and underemployment. In order to adapt, there is a need to come up with alternative business models and economic structures. 3. Rise of information technologies: Certainly, it is now easier for people from different parts of the globe to communicate and transact directly with others. 1. Rapid population growth: As the population grows, demand for goods and services also increases, so there is a need to look for alternative ways to address the increasing demand for these resources
- 7. What is advantage of “Sharing Economy”? 1. Circulation of resources. 2. Full utilization of resources. 3. Development of a culture of trust. 4. Increase in product or service variation. 5. Evolution of the role of organizations or companies. What is risk of “Sharing Economy”? 1. Security issues: If one party fails to deliver or keep its end of the bargain, there are serious consequences that must be dealt with. 2. Accountability issues: This risk is higher in companies that act as third parties or intermediaries in two-party transactions
- 8. How to grow “Sharing Economy” in the future ・The sharing economy is estimated to grow from $14 billion in 2014 to $335 billion by 2025. ・Growth rate of sharing economy and traditional rental 2013 to 2025 ・In Airbnb cases, Airbnb are stronger than hotel markets. ←Traditional rental sectors are gonna be weaker than sharing economy market. Which means, changing the way of getting and using things.
- 9. Use cases Sharing… ・Clothes ・Food ・Bike ・Toy ・Musical instruments ・Car ・Knowledge we once used, and now no-longer need them ・Employee ・Space ・Experience ・Money ・Book ・Job ・Internet ・Machine ・Time ・Skills ・Airplane ・House ・Ticket ・Music and so on..
- 10. 34 companies from this material + additional
- 12. 01: UBER General: Experience: Tips: (A)Transportation/Car pool ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 5000+ HQ: San Francisco Founder: Travis Kalanick Source: https://www.uber.com/ Investors: Uber is a mobile application that allows subscribers to get a car service from their smart phones. Users can request a car by telling the company a location, via texting an address or using iPhone or Android apps to set a pickup location on a map. Uber will send the nearest driver for pick up, and text message an estimated arrival time. When the ride is over, Uber will automatically charge the users' credit card on file. Uber takes GPS data from the ride and charges for distance or time depending on speed. Any tolls and surcharges incurred during a ride are then added on top of this calculated fare, as well as a base fare. ▷I am using this App almost everyday. That’s so useful because all we have to do is choosing destination and place where we are waiting. Then, drivers come and pick us up. I can’t live in SF and Bay area without this App. ・Softbank is one of the investors Seed $250K Seed-VC-ll $1.5M SeriesA $11M SeriesB&B-ll $37M SeriesC $258M SeriesD $1.2B SeriesE&E-ll&E-lll $2.4B SeriesF&F-ll $1.1B SeriesG&G-ll&G-lll $6.15B Others $3.95B Secondary Market $7B ・Unicorn company ・Available in 83 countries and over 674 cities Softbank, Baidu, GV, Menlo Ventures, Troy Carter and others Car pool, App, C2C,On-demand,unicorn ・Valuation is $69B
- 13. 02: BlaBlaCar General: App: Tips: (A)Transportation/Car sharing ◻Summary Found: 2006 Tags: Rising: Employees: 501-1000 HQ: Paris Founder: Frederic Mazzella Source: https://www.blablacar.fr/ Investors: Comuto, dba BlaBlaCar, is an online community that connects drivers with empty seats with people looking for a ride (or: with travellers and commuters going the same way). BlaBlaCar is creating a new way to travel for passengers every month. To ensure the quality of the matching between drivers and passengers, the website displays preferences: smoking or not, animals accepted in the car or not. ▷旅行用タクシーのようなもの。旅行者は事前に ピックアップ場所と目的地と日時を設定。その後場所へ行き 移動をすることができる。UBERと異なる点は、その場 でなく、事前に決まった道のりの際に使える点であろう。 SeriesA $1.7M SeriesB $10M SeriesC $100M SeriesD $200M Secondary Market $44M Private Equity 23.6M ・Unicorn company ・Operates in 22 countries across Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil and India Accel Partners, insight venture capitals, Index ventures, Vostok new ventures and others Car sharing, App, C2C,Travel, unicorn ・Acquired 8 ride-sharing companies so far ▷The service likes taxi for travelers .Travelers must register picking up place, destination and the time when they want to get on advance. Then, they can go and use it. The difference point from UBER is not on-demand but trip.
- 14. 03:Boat Bound General: App: Tips: (A)Transportation/Boat sharing ◻Summary Found: 2012 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Aaron Hall Source: https://boatbound.co/ Investors: Boatbound, the nation's fastest growing boat rental marketplace, gives the over 13 million registered U.S. boat owners a way to offset their ownership costs by renting their boat to pre-screened, qualified renters. Every rental includes up to $3 million in insurance protection from one of the most trusted insurers in the world, as well as on the water towing and support from Boat U.S. Whether you are looking for a boat for watersports or cruising, a fishing boat to explore a local fishing hole, or a sailboat to leisurely set sail, Boatbound creates a safe and unique boat rental experiences at any price. Boatbound is free to join and has no monthly or membership fees. ▷This service so-called “Airbnb for boat version”. Users can rent a any boat whatever they want. For instance, drinking, fishing, leisure and so on. Apparently, the service prioritizes experience than possession. Seed $150K Seed VC $1M SeriesA $11M Corporate Minority $2.5M Angel $700K Acquired(Aug 18, 2017) 500 startups, Brunswick, TA ventures,Benjamin Ling, and others Boating, Market place, App, C2C,On-demand ・Take 28% of the rental fee from the owner, 10 percent of the captain’s fee and adds a 7.5% booking fee to the renter. ・More than 300 locations in the USA ・Market size of boat is estimated about $50B
- 15. 04: TURO General: Experience Tips: (A)Transportation/Car sharing ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 101-250 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Shelby Clark Source: https://turo.com/ Investors: Turo, previously known as RelayRides, is a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace. With vehicles in over 2,300 cities nationally, RelayRides efficiently connects people who need a car with owners whose vehicles would otherwise go unused. It backs each reservation with a $1 million insurance policy. ▷I’ve used it in Las. The process of using this service is so easy that I could rent a car through app without any problem.The experience was so great, I prefer Turo to normal rent a car because there are many progress to rent it, like insurance, transaction fee such a trouble. But, there is one point in Turo that you have to pay attention because if you run longer mile that had been already set on the condition you will be charged additional fee. But others, there’s no point that I complain. SeriesA&A-ll&A-lll $19.45M SeriesB&B-ll $35M SeriesC $47M SeriesD $92M Unattributed VC 650K ・There's always new customers renting from numerous car owners August Capital, GV, Shasta ventures, Intact ventures, Jim Barnet and others Car sharing, Marketplace, P2P, Transportation ・It said that, they have 600,000+ customers. ・Listing more the 160,000 vehicles My article(JP)
- 16. 05:JustPark General: App: Tips: (A)Transportation/Parking ◻Summary Found: 2006 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ: London Founder: Anthony Eskinazi Source: https://www.justpark.com/ Investors: JustPark, formerly ParkatmyHouse, is an online platform that is involved in the trend of peer-to-peer driveway rental in the UK. ▷顧客は車を駐車する前に空いている駐車場を検索 できる。それにより駐車場を探して右往左往できる 時間を削減することができる。また、人々の 駐車スペースを共有しているためスペース全体の 効率化も同時に行っている。 ・150,000 parking space have been registered Index ventures, BMW i Ventures, Crowd cube, Local Globe App, Sharing economy, Parking, Internet ・Having 650,000 customers ・Reserve at over 20,000+ locations Seed Unknown SeriesA&A-ll&A-lll $3.92M Cloud funding $3.8M ▷Customers can find empty parking lots before parking. Therefore, they can reduce their time to find spaces. The service also streamline spaces overall because of sharing people’s own spaces.
- 17. 06: Zimride General: Tips: (A)Transportation/Ride sharing ◻Summary Found: 2007 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Logan Green Source: https://zimride.com/ Investors: Zimride is a simple way to find friends, classmates, and coworkers going the same way. By focusing on college, university and corporate communities, the company is building a critical mass of users necessary to sustain Zimride as a reliable form of transportation.In July 2013, Zimride was acquired by Enterprise from Lyft. The valuation of Zimride was undisclosed. Other terms of the deal were not released. ・Focusing on university, college, and corporate communities Funders Fund Ride sharing, SaaS, Social network, App ・Acquired by Enterprise Holdings in 2013 ・Original company is born from Lyft Seed $250K Seed-ll $1.2M SeriesA $1.2M SeriesA-ll $6M Private equity $15M Acquired(Jul 12, 2013) by Enterprise Holdings
- 18. 07:Lyft General: Experience: Tips: (A)Transportation/Car Pool ◻Summary Found: 2007 Tags: Rising: Employees: 1001-5000 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Logan Green Source: https://www.lyft.com/ Investors: Lyft, formerly Zimride, is a ride-sharing platform in the U.S. Lyft enables peer-to-peer transportation by matching passengers with nearby drivers through on-demand or pre-scheduled rides. ▷I often use Lyft as well but less frequently used. The reason why I have UBER and Lyft is in order to compare the price. The only difference thing to call driveris order of choosing pick up location button. So sometime I confused how to call it, I prefer UBER actually aspect of price and UX. Especially, people who live in SF Bay area can use “UBER Express” ・Over 1 million rides per day Ride sharing, On-demand, Unicorn, App, P2P, Transportation ・3 million active users, 700,000 drivers ・Grow out of Zimride Facebook fbFund, Mayfield Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Ford, Alibaba Group, Rakuten, Capital G, Troy Carter and others Seed $300K Seed VC 1.2M SeriesA $6M SeriesB $15M SeriesC $60M SeriesD $250M SeriesE $530M SeriesE-ll $150M SeriesF $350M Secondary Market $147.7M SeriesF-ll $500M SeriesG $600M SeriesH $1B SeriesH-ll $500M ・Available 40 states ・Aim to launch in Canada ▷価格比較をするためにUBERとLyft両方を持っています。 両者の乗車前経験の唯一の違いは目的地のみを 選ぶのか、ピックアップと目的地の両方を選ぶのか ということです。僕は価格面とUXからUBERの方が 好きです。特に、サンフランシスコ・ベイエリアに住む 方々は最近ウーバーエクスプレスが使えるため価格は さらに安くなる可能性が高いです。
- 19. 08:Get around General: Experience: Tips: (A)Transportation/Car sharing ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 51-100 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Sam Zaid Source: https://www.getaround.com/ Investors: Getaround offers a peer-to-peer carsharing experience using smartphone technology to empower people to share vehicles and utilize smarter transportation options. Users can rent cars from people nearby by the hour, day, or week and save hundreds of dollars on car payments, auto insurance, and maintenance. Car owners, while making a positive impact on the environment, can make money by renting out cars to help offset the high costs of car ownership. ▷This experience is similar to Turo. Users can research nice car in the app with some of their condition. Then, you can pick up the car on the location. Sharing car market place is more and more useful for users because they can rent exclusive car through those applications. ・Available to rent in 13cities across the US Tech crunch Disrupt, CrunchFund, Mirai Creation Investment, SAIC Capital, Sam Shank and others Car sharing, App, Transportation, P2P ・Owners conveniently share their cars earning $500-$1,000 a month. ・200,000 members they have in the US Seed VC $1.35M Biz Plan Competition&ll $150K Seed VC $2.05M Grant $1.72M SeriesA $13.9M SeriesB $24M Unattributed $10M SeriesC $45M
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- 21. 09: Zopa General: Tips: (B)Finance/Lending ◻Summary Found: 2005 Tags: Rising: Employees: 251-500 HQ: London Founder: Giles Andrews Source: https://www.zopa.com/ Investors: Zopa is a P2P money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks who act as middlemen. Zopa works in the following way: the company first categorizes borrower credit grades with an A*, A, B, C or Y rating; then lenders make offers that vary by money amount and time period for persons with a certain credit grade; and borrowers can then agree the aggregate offered rate. Zopa takes on such responsibilities as distributing money between parties, completing the legal paperwork, performing borrower identity/credit checks, and employing a collections agency that chases missed payments for the lender.Zopa also mitigates risk for lenders by enforcing monthly direct debit repayment, making borrowers sign a legal contract, and allowing lenders to lend small chunks of money to individual borrowers. The company itself makes money by charging a fixed fee for borrowers and 1% annual fee for lenders. ・Revenues leap 60% higher than 2016 Spotify, Northzone, Benchmark, Draper Associates, Wellington Partners and others Finance, Fintech, Lending, Marketplace, P2P ・Purpose: Car loans at 34% of the total origination volume; debt consolidation at 31%; and home improvement at 20% ・Serviced 300,000 loans, matching 246,000 borrowers since 2005 Series Unknown $12M SeriesA $1M SeriesB $15M SeriesB-ll $5M SeriesC 12.9M SeriesD Unknown Funding Round $15M SeriesE £32M
- 22. 10: Prosper General: Tips: (B)Finance/Lending ◻Summary Found: 2005 Tags: Rising: Employees: 501-1000 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Chris Larsen Source: https://www.prosper.com/ Investors: Prosper’s mission is to advance financial well-being. The company’s online lending platform connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions that want to invest in consumer credit. Borrowers get access to affordable fixed-rate, fixed-term personal loans. Investors have the opportunity to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. To date, over $11 billion in personal loans have been originated through the Prosper platform for debt consolidation and large purchases such as home improvement projects, medical expenses and special occasions. ・The first marketplace lender in the U.S Accel Partners, QED Investors, Sequoia Capital, Target Global, and others Finance, Cloud Funding, Fintech, Lending, Personal Finance ・Grew transaction fee revenue 32% quarter-over-quarter and 84% year-over-year. SeriesA $7.5M SeriesB $12.5M SeriesC $20M SeriesD $14.7M SeriesE $17.2M SeriesG $50M ・Prosper facilitated $775 million in loan originations through its platform, up 32% quarter-over-quarter and 74% year-over-year.
- 23. 11: Transferwise General: Tips: (B)Finance/Payments ◻Summary Found: 2010 Tags: Rising: Employees: 251-500 HQ: London Founder: Kristo Kaarmann Source: https://transferwise.com/us Investors: TransferWise lets expats, foreign students and businesses move money globally. The firm's pricing and operating model are a substantial departure from standard practice in the money transfer sector, providing customers with a lower-cost alternative to traditional means of moving money internationally.TransferWise was founded in London in March 2010 by Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann. Taavet was part of the small team that started Skype in 2003 and has recently worked with a number of startups as an angel investor and advisor. Kristo had a financial services background from Deloitte and (PwC)PricewaterhouseCoopers. TransferWise is licensed and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority. ・Sending money abroad without hidden charges. Index Ventures, Valar Ventures, Accelerator Group, IVP, Mitsui&Co, and others Finance, Fintech, P2P, Unicorn Payments, Financial Services ・Now, serves over two million customers and offers 750 currency routes, seeing customers transfer more than $1.2 billion every month. Seed €50K Seed-ll $1.3M SeriesA $6M SeriesB $25M SeriesC $58M SeriesD $26M SeriesE $280M ・1% or less they charge Experience: ▷The app is useful a businessman who working between 2 or more countries. Sending money to international is inevitable for them but if they try to send money to use bank, the cost is expensive. But Transferwise can reduce the price because transaction fee is much cheaper than using banks. From my experience, I could reduce about $50 when I tried to send 100,000 yen to USD compare to other banks like Mitsui, Rakuren and others.
- 24. 12: LendingClub General: Tips: (B)Finance/Lending ◻Summary Found: 2007 Tags: Rising: Employees: 501-1000 HQ: San Francisco Founder: John Donovan Source: https://www.lendingclub.com/ Investors: Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors so that both can benefit financially. They replace the high cost and complexity of bank lending with a faster, smarter way to borrow and invest. ・1.5 million customers registered it Canaan Partners, Union Square Ventures, Corigin Ventures, CapitalG, Sands Capital Ventures and others Consumer Lending, Credit, Finance, Fintech, Lending, Personal Finance ・31 billion+ borrowed Angel $2M SeriesA $10.26M SeriesB $12M SeriesC $24.5M SeriesD $25M IPO in 2017 ・Acquired by Springstone Financial and partnership with Union Bank App: ▷Online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors.Borrowers can set money how much they want. Then, the app connect borrowers with investors. The maximum money they can borrow is depending on the reason. ▷貸し手と借り手をオンラインでマッチングさせる プラットフォームサービス。借り手は今いくら借りたいのかを入力し、 登録します。個人の場合は$40,000が限度ですが、それ以上のプランは 審査に通れば使用可能と言います。
- 26. 13: Rent the Runway General: Tips: (C)Consumer Goods/Fashion ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 251-500 HQ: New York Founder: Jennifer Fleiss Source: https://www.renttherunway.com/ Investors: Rent the Runway is a disruptive eCommerce business with a mission to democratize luxury in the U.S. – simply, they believe that everybody deserves a Cinderella experience. They provide millions of women the ability to rent designer dresses, accessories and other essentials for a fraction of the retail price, allowing them to look, and more importantly, feel, beautiful for all of their special occasions. A goal of the company is to make rental a significant part of the retail industry – their belief is that retail does not just have to be in the business of selling products but rather using products to deliver aspirational experiences. They will be expanding into new categories and countries in the short-term. Their platform is a much needed customer acquisition channel for the brand partners they work with, providing them access to a younger customer and important data. ・There are $30, $59 and $159 models to subscribe. Bain Capital Ventures, Novel TMT Ventures,Flight Ventures, TCV, Conde Nast and others E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail, Rental, App Seed $1.75M SeriesA $15M SeriesB $15M SeriesC $24.4M SeriesD $60M SeriesE $60M ・Serving over 350 million users App: ▷Sorting condition and research clothes on the app. Users can research not only type of clothes but also condition like party, business or like relax.There are 3 type subscription for subscriber, also the service suggest each cloth to rent for rest of users. ・The company rented $809 million in retail value of dresses and accessories 2014 alone.
- 27. 14: Tradesy General: Tips: ◻Summary Found: 2012 Tags: Rising: Employees: 101-250 HQ: Santa Monica Founder: Tracy DiNunzio Source: https://www.tradesy.com/ Investors: Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace, providing a platform for buying and selling fashion. Brands available on the site include, Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Balenciaga, Chloe and more. Sellers get a free shipping kit when their item sells. They can print a prepaid label and ship using their own materials. ・Traffic comes from millennials and half of its new users are in that 18-35 age group LaunchpadLA, 500 Startups, Northgate Capital,Daher Capital, Rincon Venture Partners and others Fashion, E-commerce, Retail, Internet, Secondhand, Marketplace, App ・About 50% of its sales are on mobile devices, the favored means of web access for younger consumers. SeriesA $1.5M SeriesB $13M SeriesB-ll $30M SeriesC $30M ・30% increase in app installs during a campaign. App: ▷The app seemingly focus on selling high brands like Vuitton,Hermes, Gucci and so on. When users buy something on the app,they can see all of selling things. But when they want to sell,they have to enroll in membership. The experience of selling is that I thought that is similar to mercari, which is deploying C2C marketplace, but completely different. Because I tried to sell something, automatically obey with the process app suggested.This experience make me annoyed, a little bit. (C)Consumer Goods/Fashion
- 28. 15: Yerdle General: Tips: (C)Consumer Goods/E-Commerce ◻Summary Found: 2012 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Andy Ruben Source: https://www.yerdlerecommerce.com/index.html Investors: Yerdle is the new mission-driven company dedicated to making it as easy to share with your friends as it is to buy new online. ・Over 95,000 members they have The Westly Group, Prelude Ventures, Mindfull Investors, DBL Investors E-Commerce, Collaborative Consumption ・Sharing 1.2 million items Seed $500K SeriesA $5M Series Unknown $9.4M ・2 million Yerdle credits exchanged Technology: ▷Yerdle develops white-label solutions that integrate seamlessly with a brand’s existing infrastructure, deepening customer engagement and extending the authentic brand experience across the life of the product. ▷Yerdleはホワイトラベルソリューションという、シームレスにブランドの 既存の構造を融合したり、顧客のエンゲージメントを高めたり、 本物のブランドの経験を製品の通して拡張する技術を開発しています。
- 29. 16: GirlsmeetsDress General: Tips: (C)Consumer Goods/Fashion ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ: London Founder: Anna Bance Source: http://www.girlmeetsdress.com/ Investors: Girl Meets Dress is the leading designer dress rental destination, offering access to your dream wardrobe for all of life's special occasions. Girl Meets Dress allows you to hire designer dresses at a fraction of their retail price. You can borrow over 4,000 designer pieces from over 150 designer brands.Get the dresses delivered "next day" to you – at your home, at your office, wherever you want it – and all you have to do is have fun in it and send it back in the pre-paid box when you are done.It’s like we’re your new best friend with the massive designer wardrobe who is cool enough to let you borrow whatever you want. ・4,000 different dresses from over 200 designers Global Venture Capital E-Commerce, Fashion, Human Resources, ・This service came up with research based on 20% of their wardrobe 80% of the time SeriesA Unknown ・Range in age from 12 to 94, this can correspond Service: ▷This service allow customers choose dress for their occasion so easy. Users pick what they want to get and add them to cart. The experience is as if Amazon. The price is up to how long they rent. The longer they rent them, the more experience the price gonna be. But, dresses are might be experience and if buy it, there are not many opportunity they use them must be hesitate to buy. But this service can make users relax to rent because almost price are seemingly cheaper then buying those things.
- 30. 17: NeighborGoods General: Tips: (C)Consumer Goods/Community ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 1-10 HQ: Los Angels Founder: Micki Krimmel Source: http://neighborgoods.net/(Closed) Investors: Unknown NeighborGoods is a service to allow you to share physical items with other people in your area. There is a directory of stuff being shared, as well as the ability to create a wishlist for things you want. Sharing is as easy as clicking a button, filling out a pick-up and drop-off time, and sending it to the item owner to approve. ・Acquired by Socius Labs in 2013 Community, Finance, Financial Services ・Raised money in Cloud Funding instead VC or Angel investorsSeed $100K ・Chosen 100 most brilliant companies of 2011 Service: ▷Had you have a trouble when you don’t have stuff what you need? NeighborGoods can solve it. Users live in near community can help each other. At first they registered where they live in then, they can begin to borrow a lot of stuff whatever they want for free if people have them. This service is similar to “Jimothii(ジモティー)” in Japan. People can get or borrow stuff for free as long as they can meet in person
- 31. 18: Thredup General: Tips: (C)Consumer Goods/Fashion ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 251-500 HQ: San Francisco Founder: James Reinhart Source: https://www.thredup.com/ Investors: thredUP is the nation's most trusted online marketplace for buying and selling like-new clothing. Fusing fashion resale and e-commerce, customers send consignment quality clothing in a pre-paid Closet Cleanout Bag, earn cash up front for their clothing, and can shop favorite styles and brands at thredUP.com for up to 90% off retail. ・As many as 100,000 items in a single day Trinity Ventures, Redpoint, Highland Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs, Doug Atkin Beauty, E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail, App ・Over 20 million users they have Series Unknown $220K SeriesA $1.4M SeriesB $7M SeriesC $14.5M SeriesD $27M SeriesE $81M ・Across 35,000 brands Experience: ▷I like this UI very much. This UI is one of the most beautiful since I’ve ever seen. When I find clothes what I like or want, the app allow me to find them easily. Users can research from brands, size, type, gender, price and like that conditions. In addition, everyone can sell and buy. I think that when users sell something, this stuff gonna be sold by ThredUp. After that, this service sell what they buy to new customers, that’s circle. And this is probably focusing on clean and beautiful(Almost unused stuff) items. ・Advised by current Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, former eBay COO, Brian Swette and backed by world-class investors.
- 32. 19:Pley General: Tips: (C)Consumer Goods/Toys ◻Summary Found: 2013 Tags: Rising: Employees: 1-10 HQ: Santa Clara Founder: Ranan Lachman Source: https://www.pley.com/ Investors: Pley is building the next generation of play. It puts the power of educational toys in people’s hands in a more affordable, convenient and eco-friendly way. Pley’s goal is to change the very paradigm of playtime for kids by providing an affordable subscription service for educational toys. Leveraging collaborative consumption, it aims to raise a more creative and skillful generation. ・There are over 300,000 users Allegro Venture Partners, Maven Ventures, Sozo Ventures, Flight Ventures, Daniel Curran Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace, Subscription Services, Toys ・They have 400+ toy options for kids to choose from SeriesA $6.75M SeriesB $10M ・There are $12.99 + 1 toy/month or $29.99 + 3 toys/month options. But the price is up to plan. Experience: ▷That’s exactly what I want when I was a child. The service is targeting for children mainly. Users also can pick 500 variety of toys and many plans. Toys can be corresponded with girls and boys so every child can play them and be enjoy. Even though I am 22 years old, this service remind me of my younger age and make me so excited. I want to use it. lol ▷これは自分が子供の頃欲しかったサービスです。 いくつかのプランから自分の好きなものを選ます。 500を超えるおもちゃから選ぶことができ、それは女の子にも 男の子にも対応しています。そのため全ての子供が好きなおもちゃで、 新しいおもちゃで楽しむことが可能です。私は既に22歳ですが、 おもちゃ好きだった子供の頃を思い出しますし、このサービスは私を ワクワクさせてくれます。使いたい願望があります。
- 33. 20:Mercari General: Tips: (C)Consumer Goods/Marketplace ◻Summary Found: 2013 Tags: Rising: Employees: 501-1000 HQ:Tokyo Founder: Shintaro Yamada Source: https://www.mercari.com/ Investors: Mercari aims to provide a solution by enabling people to easily sell and purchase second-hand items in a mobile marketplace with their smartphones.Japan’s mobile shopping obsession is finally in the US. Mercari, the resale shopping app, is the country’s biggest community- powered shopping fair in the palm of your hands. The intuitive app lets you buy and sell anything, from anywhere, in seconds from your stuff. Mercari delivers. Listing your item is as simple as uploading a photo and adding a few details, with built-in features that help you easily print out shipping labels and quickly drop packages in the mail. Mercari’s sharing community grows larger and makes the world more sustainable every day. ・Gross margin ratio is over 90% East Ventures, World Innovation Lab, Mitsui&Co, Globis Capital Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, UNITED, Inc E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile App, C2C, Marketplace ・Monthly distribution amount is over $10M Seed $500K SeriesA $3M SeriesB $14.5M SeriesC $23.6M SeriesD $75M ・Total quantity of downloading app is over 1,000,000,00 in the world Experience: ▷Actually, I have used mercari a lot of times before. It is efficient for users to sell something unnecessary. All users have to do is taking pictures, adding explanation and setting the price. I actually sold $4,000 in three months when I was doing mercari in Japan. Converted into hourly rate equivalent, I earned $40 per hour. Also,mercari is most famous C2C marketplace app in Japan. I think that 8 out of 10 people or more know it in these days. Recently, they are focusing on deploying it more in USA. ・Only unicorn company in Japan ・Neymar, professional soccer player, became an ambassador
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- 35. 21: HomeAway General: Tips: (D)Space/Travel ◻Summary Found: 2005 Tags: Rising: Employees: 1001-5000 HQ:Austin Founder: Carl Shepherd Source: https://www.homeaway.com/ Investors: HomeAway, Inc. based in Austin, Texas, is the world's leading online marketplace for the vacation rental industry, with sites representing over one million paid listings of vacation rental homes in 190 countries. Through HomeAway, owners and property managers offer an extensive selection of vacation homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, including more room to relax and added privacy, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations. The company also makes it easy for vacation rental owners and property managers to advertise their properties and manage bookings online. American Capital, IVP, Trident Capital, TCV, GV, Redpoint, Austin Ventures and others Advertising, Tourism, Travel, App ・Operated through 50 websites in 23 languages. SeriesA $49M SeriesB $160M SeriesC $6.5M Series Unknown $11.5M SeriesD $250M Series Unknown $8.25M Secondary Market $5M ・Acquired by Expedia on November in 2015 App: ▷The UX is similar to Airbnb. Users can find a bunch of accommodation in the app all over the world. They can sort the condition on it and book it. It is easier for travelers to book accommodation. ・2,000,000 vacation rentals in 190 countries ▷UXはAirbnbと似ている印象を受けました。 ユーザーは条件検索の後、宿泊所を予約できます。 これは宿泊所の検索と予約をよりスムーズにし、 多くの選択肢を与えます。
- 36. 22: LiquidSpace General: Tips: (D)Space/Office ◻Summary Found: 2010 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ:Palo Alto Founder: Mark Gibreath Source: https://liquidspace.com/ Investors: LiquidSpace is the new model for startup real estate. You can now complete your office hunt online in minutes rather than months. Gone are the days of complex leases and hassles; simply find a space you love and book it on a month-to-month basis. You can upgrade anytime as your business grows and your needs change. And when you need an additional work or meeting space anywhere, you have access to a world of workspaces that you can book instantly by the hour or the day, across the U.S., Canada and Australia. ・Offersing customers access to over 3200 building ROTH Capital Partners, FLOODGATE, Shasta Ventures, DreamFunded, NFX, Reid Hoffman and others Collaborative Consumption, Peer-to-Peer, Real Estate, Real Time, Office Space ・Over 750 cities. Seed $1.3M SeriesA $3.6M SeriesB $6M SeriesB-ll $1.3M SeriesB-lll Unknown SeriesC $14M Series Unknown $120K App: ▷The app can allow businessmen to find co-working spaces or offices easily. On the app, they can find spaces near them and research it. When users found good places for them, they can send a request to the staff through the app. If the request approved, they can use it as long they requested ・Individuals and teams from over 72,000 businesses in 750 cities ▷オフィス探しが非常に簡単になります。 登録されているスペースの中から選ぶことができ、 もしいい場所を発見した場合にはアプリを通して リクエストを送信できます。承認後、定めた期間で定額を 支払うことにより好きにスペースを利用することができます。
- 37. 23: Shared Earth General: Tips: (D)Space/Land Sharing ◻Summary Found: 2009 Tags: Rising: Employees: 1-10 HQ:Austin Founder: Adam Dell Source: https://sharedearth.com/ Investors: SharedEarth is a sustainable non-profit corporation and the largest community garden in the world. It connects people with land with people who want to grow food By connecting all food growers worldwide and increasing their available supply of land, the company impacts economies, health, and the environment. ・The largest community garden in the world East Ventures, World Innovation Lab, Mitsui&Co, Globis Capital Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, UNITED, Inc Agriculture, Collaborative Consumption, Impact Investing, Non-Profit Unknown Service: ▷In the service, users can share their garden for other’s plants, fruits, and some flowers. Users who want to get more space to grow their plants can get more spaces from other users who are sharing their spaces. The community is big helpful for person who is growing many plants. Users can share their plants information for who will able to share their garden in the service. And then, they can meet in person and start to share land and plants. ・Sustainable non-profit corporation ・Users can share lands to grow plants, fruits and others
- 38. 24: CouchSurfing General: Tips: (D)Space/Travel ◻Summary Found: 2004 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ:San Francisco Founder: Daniel Hoffer Source: https://www.couchsurfing.com/ Investors: Couchsurfing began in 2004 as a small passion project by founders Casey Fenton, Daniel Hoffer, Sebastian Le Tuan and Leonardo Bassani da Silveira. An email to a group of students in Iceland gave birth to the idea that people anywhere would want to share their homes with strangers. ・More than 200,000 cities Benchmark, General Catalyst, Lumia Capital, Menlo Ventures, Omidyar Ventures and others Hospitality, Search Engine, Social Media, Travel ・550,000 events happened in annualSeriesA $7.6M SeriesB $15M Experience: ▷I tried to stay in accommodation to use CouchSurfing when I arrived at San Francisco and didn’t have any accommodation. I sent many people a request through the app but that was difficult to get that. But, this app itself is so good for travelers who want to stay a couple days because there are many free accommodation. Therefore, there is an opportunity to stay free of charge. Because the purpose of hosts is meeting interesting people in the world so they registered theirs even though the revenue is free. ・12 million members registered ・There are free fee accommodations ▷実際にサンフランシスコ着きたての時に使ってみたのですが 1個も承認リクエストは来ませんでした。申し込み期間が 長かったからでしょう。しかしサービス自体は僕は好きです。 なぜなら多くの旅行者に無料の宿泊先を提供してくれているから です。リクエストを送り、承認されるとそこが宿泊先になります。 ホストたちの目的は世界中の面白いたちに会うことで、 そういった好奇心を持つ人が多いです。 そのため無料でも彼らの宿泊先を提供しています。
- 39. 25: Pivotdesk General: Tips: (D)Space/Co-working ◻Summary Found: 2012 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ:Boulder Founder: David Mandell Source: https://www.pivotdesk.com/ Investors: PivotDesk is an office-sharing marketplace that transforms the way we think about office space from a liability into a growing business asset.By providing the tools businesses need to market, manage and monetize excess office space, and the search and match tools that startups need to find a suitable host, PivotDesk helps: Startups and small businesses find flexible, affordable, room to grow. Growing businesses profit from their dynamic space situations Build entrepreneurial density and economic development in desirable, downtown locations ・Over 200 listings in SF, NYC and Denver Techstars, Foundry Group, Draper Associates, Jason Seats, Chase Fraser and others Co-working, Internet, Real Estate ・To monetize, they take a 10 percent commission each time the cohabiter renews its monthly lease Seed Unknown Seed-ll $3.235M SeriesA $3.625M App: ▷Users are able to book offices where they want to work flexibly. At first, they sort conditions at the page then, they look at many listings. If they find good offices, they can contact owner via this page. ・Matched 100 companies with office space
- 40. 26: Wework General: Tips: (D)Space/Co-working ◻Summary Found: 2011 Tags: Rising: Employees: 501-1000 HQ:New York Founder: Adam Neumann Source: https://www.wework.com/ Investors: WeWork is a platform for creators that transforms buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and collaboration. The company transform buildings into beautiful, collaborative work spaces and provide infrastructure, services, events and tech so our members can focus on doing what they love. ・Offices are located in over 50 cities Goldman Sachs, T. Rowe Price, Hony Capital, Legends Holdings, SoftBank, Shubham Sharma Building Maintenance, Hospitality, Property Development, Co-working, ・Also they have offices in 18 countries Seed $1M Seed-ll $6.85M SeriesA $17M SeriesB $40M SeriesC $150M SeriesD $355M SeriesE $433.934M SeriesF $690M SeriesG $760M Private Equity 4.4B ・175,000 members are in Experience: ▷I explored office of WeWork. The co-working space is louder than other co-working space I’ve ever been. I asked the officer “Why every people talking like loudly? I think this atmosphere makes other workers annoyed.” She said, “It’s not problem. All people talking now are wanting to talk to others in order to get new information or hearing business and relevant to those topic. This is a culture that this space have. Who wants to talk is talking, who wants to work is working right now. The switch is very important.” I understood it by her. Co-working space is must be great spot for workers because many smart business persons are there, so that’s easy to connect with many people just staying in such a great place. ・SoftBank is one of the investors ・Totally, 200 offices in the world, they have
- 41. 27: Airbnb General: Tips: (D)Space/Travel ◻Summary Found: 2008 Tags: Rising: Employees: 1001-5000 HQ:San Francisco Founder: Brian Chesky Source: https://www.airbnb.com/ Investors: Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world through mobile phones or the internet. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences at any price point, with over 2M listings in 34K cities and 192 countries. With a growing community of users, Airbnb also provides an easy way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. ・The number of adults using Airbnb in United States was 44.8 Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Y Ventures, CF, Andreessen Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher Jeremy Stoppelman and others Hospitality, Market Place, Sharing Economy, Travel Accommodations, Travel, App, Unicorn ・500,000 stays per night Seed $20K Seed-ll $600K SeriesA $7.2M SeriesB $112M SeriesC $200M SeriesD $475M SeriesE $1.5B Private Equity $100M Debt Financing $1B SeriesF 555.462M SeriesF-ll $447.8M Venture Round Unknown ・Users can be divided into 54%female and 46% male Experience: ▷I used the service many times when I travel. This experience was always good. First, there is a kitchen, refrigerator, shelf and other necessity. On the other hand, hotels don’t have such a stuff in many cases because the purpose is just make travelers stay. But accommodations in Airbnb are “House”. It means, people lived the house or room but now, they don’t need them so they rent. Therefore, the amenity and utility are just as they lived so there are such a useful stuff. Travelers can cook in the hotel in a sense. ・4 million listings in 65,000 cities and 191 countries ・Top city for active Airbnb listings in Paris
- 43. 28: Postmates General: Tips: (E)Consumer Goods/Delivery ◻Summary Found: 2011 Tags: Rising: Employees: 501-1000 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Bastian Lehmann Source: https://postmates.com/ Investors: Postmates is the leading on-demand logistics provider. With more than 65,000 active Postmates, the company operates the largest on-demand delivery fleet in 44 major US metropolitan markets. Postmates overall mission to power local, on-demand logistics focused on fast deliveries from any type of merchant at scale. With collaborations with Starbucks, Chipotle, 7-Eleven, Walgreens and Apple, Postmates is in line with that mission. ・200 cities and deliveries 2 million in a month Founders Fund, Uncork Capital, Spark Capital,Harmony Partners, David Wu, Walter Lee Delivery, Delivery Service, Logistics, Same Day Delivery, Transportation, App ・7,000 business partners Seed $60K Angel $750K Angel $1.2M SeriesA $5M SeriesB $16M SeriesC $35M SeriesD $80M SeriesD-ll $140M Experience: ▷You can call foods delivery via this app. Postmates can allow us to eat meal wherever we are because mates (workers in Postmates) deliver them. Prospective from B2B, Postmates can deliver meals from restaurants which doesn’t do any delivery services. But Postmates can be deliver staff instead their staff. That is big helpful for customers and restaurants services. ・Collects 20 percent of the delivery fee that it charges. The other 80 percent, along with all additional tips, goes to the courier
- 44. 29: TaskRabbit General: Tips: (E)Consumer Goods/Location Service ◻Summary Found: 2008 Tags: Rising: Employees: 51-100 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Kevin Busque Source: https://www.taskrabbit.com/ Investors: It was a cold night in Boston in February of 2008 when Leah Busque realized she was out of dog food for her 100–lb yellow lab, Kobe. Leah thought to herself, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a place online I could go to connect with my neighbors — maybe one who was already at the store at that very moment — who could help me out?” From this experience, TaskRabbit (formerly RUNmyERRAND), an online and mobile marketplace that connects neighbors to get things done, was born. Fully vetted, entrepreneurially-minded professionals contribute their time and skills to help busy people find extra time in their days to do the things they love. Neighbors helping neighbors — it's an old school concept reimagined for today. ・Over 60,000 runners signed upBaseline Ventures, Shasta Ventures, 500 Startups, Founders Fund, Shervin Pishevar and others App, E-Commerce, Location Based -Services, Mobile, App ・Introducing a flat 30% service fee on all tasks, and discontinuing the 15% service fee for tasks with repeat Clients.” Angel $25K Seed $1M Seed-ll $850K SeriesA $5M SeriesB $17.8M SeriesC $13M Secondary Market Unknown Experience: ▷If you have a trouble about cleaning, moving and such a situation. You can this app. You can call people who can do what you want only if you pay hourly fee. In my case, I moved to another place in SF, I was helped staff of TaskRabbit including get an experience of this service. That was nice. ・Acquired by IKEA on September in 2017
- 45. 30: Instacart General: Tips: (E)Consumer Goods/Delivery ◻Summary Found: 2012 Tags: Rising: Employees: 101-250 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Apoorva Mehta Source: https://www.instacart.com/ Investors: Instacart is a same-day grocery delivery startup offering delivery in as little as one hour. Focused on delivering groceries and home essentials, Instacart already has over 500,000 items from local stores in its catalogue. Customers can choose from a variety of local stores including Safeway, Whole Foods, Super Fresh, Harris Teeter, Shaw's, Mariano's, Jewel-Osco, Stanley's and Costco. Customers can mix items from multiple stores into one order. ・As many as 100,000 items in a single day Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Whole Foods Market, Funders Club, Paul Buchheit and others Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Same- Day Delivery, App, Unicorn ・Over 150 markets nationwide and partnered with retailers across the United States Seed Unknown Seed-ll $2.3M SeriesA $8.5M SeriesB $44M SeriesC $220M SeriesD $400M Experience: ▷Instacart is focusing on delivering fresh foods from grocery store like Safeway, Costco and so on. You can pick up whatever you want on the app and then purchase them. In addition, you can set the time when you want to catch them in your house. If you don’t have any time to buy foods in your schedule, that is so helpful to your life. This is different from “Seikyo”, the service is not flexible because even though you choose stuff on the service, the delivery date is only once in a week. I mean, no matter how fast you want to get, they don’t correspond with you expectation. But Instacart is very good. ・3 million grocery orders from more than 200,000 users.
- 46. 31: Bellhops General: Tips: (E)Consumer Goods/Employment ◻Summary Found: 2012 Tags: Rising: Employees: 51-100 HQ: Chattanooga Founder: Stephen Vlahos Source: https://www.getbellhops.com/ Investors: Operating in 25+ US cities, Bellhops is a new breed of moving company in a $25B+ addressable space. Combined with our outstanding workforce of Bellhops (movers), our tech-enabled model creates efficiencies that allow us to deliver better moving experiences with significantly lower overhead (and cost) than traditional movers. High tech, low overhead, legendary service, untouchable prices. All thanks to tech and a truly exceptional workforce. Our mission is to make phenomenal moving experiences possible for more people than ever before. ・Movers make $13 to $15 an hour, plus tips, which together add up to $24 an hour on average Binary Capital, Initiated Capital, Techstars Ventures, Lowercase Capital,Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian and others Employment, Service Industry, App ・Largest demographic is ages 18 to 34 Seed $600K Angel $1M Seed-ll Unknown SeriesA $6.1M SeriesB $13.5M Debt Financing $6M App: ▷All you have to do is booking a service on the app. You choose movement day and call movers. Before you book it, you can see estimation price so don’t be concerned about it. ・Operating 85 US cities ▷アプリ上でサービスを予約することができます。 日にちを予約することにより引っ越しサービスの人たちが きて作業をしてくれます。価格に関しては、大きさ、重さ、 量などから見積もりが出せるため、作業終了後の価格の心配は 不必要です。
- 48. 32:Fiverr.com General: Tips: (F)Professional Services/Outsourcing ◻Summary Found: 2010 Tags: Rising: Employees: 101-250 HQ: Tel Aviv Founder: Micha Kaufman Source: https://www.getbellhops.com/ Investors: Fiverr is a freelance services platform. It is a marketplace for creative and professional services, currently listing over 3 million gigs in more than 100 different categories across 196 countries.Fiverr is one of the top 400 websites in the world according to Alexa.com. ・5 offices they have in Tel Aviv, NYC, Chicago, Miami, and San Francisco Bessemer Venture Partners, Qumra Capital, Square Peg Capital, Lightbank, Accel Partners, Cubit Investments Collaborative Consumption, Outsourcing, Task Management, App ・20% transaction fee they get Seed $1M SeriesA $5M SeriesB $15M SeriesC $30M SeriesD $60M App: ▷Users can ask many freelancers to do jobs in the app. Researching condition and job title and more, you can find your temporary business partner. Price is depending on how high the quality is and how many the tasks are. You can choose flexibly. ・Generating close to 1 million transactions a month ▷ユーザーは作りたいサービスの開発や デザインなどをこのプラットフォームに登録されている フリーランサーに外注することができます。 料金はタスク量や完成度の質などに依存します。 外注の条件はフレキシブルに申し込みことが可能です。
- 49. 33: Wonolo General: Tips: ◻Summary Found: 2014 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ: San Francisco Founder: Yong Kim Source: https://www.wonolo.com/ Investors: Wonolo is an on-demand staffing platform for businesses to fill their immediate hourly or daily labor needs. They solve the last mile staffing problem for Fortune 500 companies as well as Small-to-Medium businesses. Wonolo allows companies to manage unpredictability by augmenting their existing labor force with hourly to daily Wonoloers who can come in within an hour and do the job. ・More than 10,000 on-demand job openings Coca Cola Founders, FG Angels, CF, PivotNorth Capital, Urizen Ventures, Adeyemi jao and others Local, Marketplace, Staffing Agency, App ・30,000 members are joining Angle $Unknown Seed $2.2M SeriesA $5.7M Service: ▷Job hunters can be freelancers so as to use their professional skills like engineer, wiring and others. On the other hand, employees finders can register it and find freelancers in the platform. Registered their project and requirement. All information, example how to pay fee, what kind of project and so on are filled in here. All procedure will be finished in here, that’s purpos of this company “Futuristic working style ” ・Helping connect some 2,500 eager workers (F)Professional Services/Marketplace
- 50. 34: Upwork General: Tips: ◻Summary Found: 1999 Tags: Rising: Employees: 251-500 HQ: Mountain View Founder: Odyseas Tsaalos Source: https://www.upwork.com/ Investors: Upwork is the world’s largest freelancing website. Upwork makes it easier for the world's best businesses and independent professionals to find each other without the traditional barriers of set time and place. Freelancers on the site offer more than 3,500 skills, helping to ease the pain businesses face in finding skills they need to get work done. These freelancers are earning more than $1 billion annually via Upwork. Upwork makes it simple, quick and cost-effective for clients to find, hire, work with and pay freelancers. Businesses of every size use Upwork, from one-person startups to major corporations. ・Freelancers are earning more than $1 billion via it Benchmark, Sigma Partners, DAG Ventures, FirstMark, NEA, Sigma West, Citi Group and others Enterprise Software, Freelance, Marketplace, App ・To connect businesses with great talent to work without limits is their vision SeriesA $12M SeriesA-ll 6M SeriesB $50M SeriesB-ll $8M SeriesC $15M Venture Round $16M SeriesD $15M Venture Round $30M SeriesE $10M Experience: ▷If you are on side of freelancer, you register it and wait for a job. If you have your own project, you can hire freelancers in the service. For example, I registered as having a project in it. I was requested to register what my project is and choose freelancers. Also, I registered it to find writers so the service told me freelancers who are working as writers.If you set your original condition, you can choose them easier. Also, the price could be set by you so you can save your budget. ・Providing companies with over 3,500 skills. (F)Professional Services/Freelance
- 51. 35: CrowdSpring General: Tips: ◻Summary Found: 2007 Tags: Rising: Employees: 11-50 HQ: Chicago Founder: Ross Kimbarovky Source: https://www.crowdspring.com/ Investors: crowdSPRING is the world's #1 marketplace for crowdsourced logo design, web design, graphic design, industrial design and writing services. More than 119,000 designers and writers from 200 countries help entrepreneurs, businesses, non-profits and governments around the world with graphic design, web design, industrial design, and copywriting needs. More than 30,000 satisfied customers from 100 countries have leveraged crowdSPRING's community—the average project gets 130+ entries. In addition to working with thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses from around the world, crowdSPRING has worked with many large brands and many of the world's top agencies ・User satisfaction is 98% so far Unknown Content Creators, Crowdsourcing, Graphic Design, Marketing, Web Design ・NPS is 9.2 Angel $3M Experience: ▷If you have the job which is relevant to design, this service can be useful. For example, you are bothering design of logo.You can use this service. All you have to is filling in a form what your image and motivation of the project is. And then, automatically they suggest to you design of logo following your condition. But freelancers will make that so it’s not immediately. However, if you apply for it as an express project, it can be faster than usual but undoubtedly you have to pay additional express cost. ・One of the top 20 freelance companies (F)Professional Services/Design
- 52. 36: Catalant General: Tips: ◻Summary Found: 2012 Tags: Rising: Employees: 101-250 HQ: Boston Founder: Rob Biederman Source: https://gocatalant.com/ Investors: Catalant connects companies to talent and knowledge in real time. Catalant has built a global network of more than 40,000 experienced and independent consultants and boutique firms available to work with clients on a variety of business needs including research, strategy, marketing, finance, sales, operations and product initiatives. These experts combine with clients' internal talent to form dynamic talent pools accessed via a suite of software products. By serving enterprise clients when they need on- demand talent for a specific initiative, or to close a longer-term talent gap, Catalant is changing the way the world finds the best people for their company's needs, faster. Catalant leverages a blend of machine learning and human oversight for its matching process, ensuring clients are matched with people with the right skills, availability, and budget in mind. ・Over $50 million in annual revenue in annual Greylock Partners, General Catalyst, GE Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Mark Cuban, Scott Cook and others Consulting, Enterprise Software, Professional Services, Small and Medium Systems, ・$41 million in new funding on marketing and R&D for its software. Seed $750K SeriesA $4M SeriesB $7.8M SeriesC $22M SeriesD $41M Experience: ▷Having a Project persons can find freelancers in the service. You fill in the form about your condition what you want, what kind of skill who has is better. Then, Catalant’s algorithm can screen freelancers so as to your desire. After that, they suggest to you some of candidates seemingly you may like. ・More than 45,000 experienced independent consultants (F)Professional Services/Consultants
- 53. Comment Thank you for reading so far! This is a first material that I made in English. Therefore, there are sometimes complicated or strange expression. From this experience, I could understand about sharing economy industry. And also, I had got much information if I haven’t researched them in Japanese so I feel that to improve English skill will be able to expand opportunities. Finally, I appreciate you all read it until final. Thank you, Fumiya 1/20/18 Blog Media →here →here →here(JP) →here →here →here(EN)
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