service marketplace

Fiverr acquires Stoke Talent for $95M, adding freelance management tools for employers to its platform

On the heels of LinkedIn last week launching Service Marketplace, a competitor to freelance platforms like Fiverr and Upwork, today Fiverr announced an acquisition that speaks to how it plans to stay

LinkedIn rolls out its freelance services marketplace globally after picking up 2M users in smaller US beta

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned platform for those connecting with others in their fields of work and those looking for work, has been known best in recruitment for sourcing candidates and advertising j

The next service marketplace wave: Vertical market-networks

The last few decades have produced many successful marketplaces. But why haven't we seen many successful B2B service marketplaces?

With Series A funding from Benchmark, Prefer takes the wraps off its new marketplace

Between Thumbtack, Yelp, Angie's List and Amazon, it wouldn't appear that the world needs a new platform that matches customers with service professionals. That's not the way Julio Vasconcellos sees i

Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble

Service marketplaces have recently become Silicon Valley darlings. The marketplace model has been a popular way for VCs to efficiently tap into the local economies at scale, specifically the $800 bill