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Right now, DesignCrowd intends to hire 10 new employees by January. It's a testament to the rapidly expanding IT sector in Australia, which has seen a number of investments from both local...
The move comes one year after DesignCrowd received a $3 million investment from Melbourne-based venture capital firm Starfish Ventures.According to DesignCrowd chief executive Alec Lynch, Asia...
How DesignCrowd aims to differ from other crowdsourced design platforms is that the site gives participation payments to designers that don’t win but participate in a bid. And DesignCrowd only...
Tony Glenning of Starfish Ventures (who led the investment in DesignCrowd) said: “We really believe in the crowdsourcing model. In particular, we are really attracted to the idea of crowdsourcing...
The launch of DesignCrowd's New Zealand-specific website is the first outside of Australia, but there are plans to further expand into other Western markets such as the UK, Canada and...
The crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industry is picking up momentum at an exceptional rate. Validity of the models involved is now grounded in the ever-increasing size of the participatory crowd, the scale of the capital networks involved, and the unique value delivered to customers, communities, and investors alike. Astute expansion-stage venture firms are now decisively backing and further fuelling explosive high-growth in crowd-driven companies. With more than $280 million invested in 35 different crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms during 2011 — an average investment of $8 million per funding round — it is clear that the industry’s probationary period is over.
“Acquiring Brandstack will help DesignCrowd do three things – achieve immediate, global market leadership in the ready-made logo design space, grow our existing business in the US, UK and Canada,...
Aussie crowdsourcing start-ups DesignCrowd and 99designs have gone head to head, expanding at the same time to the United Kingdom, but, according to both companies, there's always room for...
DesignCrowd isn't the first crowdsourcing site for graphic design to launch in Canada. In October 2011, 99designs.ca launched here. While businesses that use the service seem to be happy with...
DesignCrowd CEO Alec Lynch said, "We believe TimesSquare.com's $10,000 prize was the largest ever for an online logo contest and the first time an online logo crowdsourcing has received...
According to DesignCrowd, the top crowdsourcing countries are the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. However, the company is also seeing strong growth from the likes of Brazil,...
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