2013 has been a *huge* year for DesignCrowd customers, designers and our team. We were delighted when in January DesignCrowd hit 100,000 designers. In August we hit a key milestone for the business: $10 million in design projects. By October we had paid our designers over $12 million in design projects and our community had grown to over 250,000 designers and customers. That's a tonne of awesome, beautiful crowdsourced design that's been made on DesignCrowd!
Today, we have something else to share with you...
We Raised $3M To Expand Worldwide!
DesignCrowd has received $3 million worth of investment from Starfish Ventures. This means that we now have even more capacity to improve our service, expand our business internationally and grow our team even further to support you.
These press outlets (plus many more) covered the $3 million announcement.
What does this mean for you?
The $3M investment will help us:
- Build a better platform with improved design and functionality for our customers and designers
- Grow our designer base from 148,294 to 1,000,000 - we're recruiting more top design talent to work with from around the globe and bigger, better and more lucrative design contests.
- Grow our team from 20 staff to 50 staff to service you. (Yep, we're hiring)
- Launch our service in new languages , starting ith German and Spanish (Hola!)
- Open new international offices near you, starting with the United States!
We're hiring!
There is also one more thing we want to emphasise - DesignCrowd is hiring! We're looking for smart, experienced folks to join our team.
- Rainmakers - we have roles open for online marketing heavyweights and SEM high achievers, partnership gurus and marketing supermos / all-rounders
- Builders & Bakers - we're looking for front-end web developers, UI/UX designers, programmers / code warriors and product managers to lead initiaitives to improve the platform.
- Service Champions - we're looking for cool-headed trouble-shooters who love helping customers and designers have a great experience using our service. Get to know the current DesignCrowd Justice League team
If this sounds like you, or someone you know, please
get in touch with us now.
Thank you!
We want to thank you - our customers, our talented designers, our advocates and investors for your ongoing support. We will ultimately focus to further improve our marketplace and our services for your benefit. Thanks for being part of our achievements to date, here's to many more!
Keep spreading the word about DesignCrowd and help us to continue our mission to bring our model of crowdsourcing to every corner of the globe!
The Sydney-based DesignCrowd team celebrate the $3M capital raise with a day on Sydney Harbour.
Written by Jo Sabin on Friday, November 15, 2013
Jo Sabin is Head of Designer Community at DesignCrowd. She's led the company's public relations and social media programs since 2012. With more than ten years' experience working with Australian and international tech startups in the creative industries, Jo has been instrumental in meeting DesignCrowd's objectives in Australia and abroad. Get in touch via Twitter.
