Start Pill
This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Freelance startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Freelance industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Join our community: The Startup Pill Facebook group is designed to be a friendly and international space where startup founders, investors and consultants can share resources, progress and tips. Click here to join.
Top Freelance Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
BuyHive
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
BuyHive takes accountability for global buyers, in sourcing products and manufacturers with enhanced trust and transparency
Torre
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Torre is a professional network that reinvents job-matching and recruitment services.
Willa
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Willa is a fintech startup solving freelancers’ biggest pain: getting paid on time, every time.
QUASA
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
The First Open Blockchain Platform With Artificial Intelligence For Connecting People
SoleVenture
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
SoleVenture is an online marketplace platform for freelancers.
Quicka
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Quicka is an innovative, high growth financial technology company based in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 2019 by two Australian Fintech veterans, Quicka’s mission is to solve cash flow stress for small business owners by helping businesses pay & get paid.
Why? The average small business owner waits more than 56 days to collect on their invoices, creating unnecessary cash flow stress, and is the leading cause why 40% of business fail. We are changing this.
Using a proprietary technology platform and a fast, simple sign up process, Quicka allows small business owners to get paid upfront on their invoices, in real time, whilst giving their customers flexible repayment options. For more information on Quicka and to receive our latest updates, please visit our website for more details..
Livelii
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Livelii helps Canadian freelancers get health and dental coverage, paid vacation and sick days, and get paid on time. It built a platform with freelancers for freelancers which takes on the biggest challenges ranging from payment collection to having health and dental benefits and paid days off.
It was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.. .
Book Any Act
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Find top professionals, venues & equipment, On Demand.
Resolla
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Resolla is AI-driven video production platform & Community
Shalder
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Shalder is the platform where businesses can hire experts to scale their team, on-demand, saving money, and time in all the processes.
Wremia
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Your Data-Driven Online Project Management Solution
crystal-matrix.com
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
We would like to start with a question, how strong is our business ecosystem in face of this current pandemic? People are forced to look elsewhere for a second source of earning money. Crystal-Matrix.com is an online platform for individuals and entrepreneurs designed to provide them with the appropriate ecosystem to thrive and grow their business.
The problem we are aiming to solve is the financial dependence between the business of the employer and the employee. The solution is to develop an online platform where professionals can safely and securely build multiple streams of income and become financially independent.
Our objective at Crystal-Matrix is to develop the next generation online office and we have started by building on a web-platform crystal-matrix.com, with the sole intent of helping people develop multiple strings of revenue by contracting or providing services, to a local or international market, and in the process to build a name for themselves and grow a network of influence. We are structured on 3 pillar functionalities: 1.
Building of trust and transparency of experience and know-how, by the person providing the service and the benefactor of the service. 2.
Growing your personal network of influence, by adding people to your network in a secure and private environment. 3.
Growing your own business by posting and taking on projects depending on the compatibility between technical, soft skills, background and experience. From final functionality point of view our goal is to develop a platform where individuals and legal entities can safely and securely conduct their online business, from booking appointments, to service providers, to the day by day work.
Growth Collective
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Growth Collective is an exclusive network of freelance marketers. We help companies grow without the agency markup by assembling teams of vetted freelancers.
All of our marketers are available on flexible contracts, enabling companies to adjust their marketer mix as needs change. Our mission is to empower more marketers to work for themselves, flexibly and remotely.
By connecting top marketers with interesting startups and brands, we help freelancers grow sustainable businesses of their own.. .
Teamway
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
TeamWay assembles and manages high-performing remote engineering teams, available on a monthly subscription. We call it Team-as-a-Service.
Top companies use TeamWay to solve their critical software projects, speed up innovation, increase flexibility and free up internal resources.. .
Mylance
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Nearly 50% of an independent consultant’s time is spent doing non-earning, admin activities like bookkeeping and finding new projects. By 2028, 90 million freelancers will bring in $1.4T in gross revenue, and waste 33 billion hours in admin tasks in the US alone.
Founded in late 2019, Mylance is building the comprehensive community, business-suite, and project generator for independent consultants.. .
Casana
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Casana is a team of freelance software engineers and designers that manage to build software solutions and digital products.
Co-Tasker
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Co-Tasker is a community marketplace for quick help and local services. on the platform, users are able to post tasks that they need help with, and other users can apply for these tasks, use their skills and earn money in return.
From tasks such as translation help and professional assistance, to help around the home and errands. Our mission for Co-Tasker is to empower society to use their skills that they don’t use in their daily lives to earn money, when, where and how they want to whilst helping others who need that help.
“We want to give the chance for everyone to get help like a local and have the opportunity to make money no matter their personal situation”. .
Propawork
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Freelance Business Service Marketplace for Skilled, Creative and Professionals
Procurement Freelancers
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
PFL is a global freelancers marketplace that connects procurement professionals to businesses seeking specialized purchasing support
Top Graduate
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Combining recruiting, freelancing and employer brand solutions, Top Graduate simplifies the connection between companies and students. Our mission is to increase students’ employability by connecting them to companies which are looking for talents.
Top Graduate, The young talent empowerment platform. www.topgraduate.co.
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Gignav offers a work platform for enterprises, small businesses, workers, and consumers. It combines the power of private talent networks with data science and AI to help hire and rehire workers.
Gignav puts businesses in control of their on-demand talent pool and helps them successfully adopt flexible workforce arrangements to get a competitive advantage. They help businesses focus on work and on maximizing worker productivity by putting the right people on the right job and apply lean work management to optimize resources.
It was founded in 2019 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.. .
DigitlyX
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
DigitlyX is a freelancing platform in India where freelancers can sell his or her services.
Fambase
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Mobile App, Social Media, E-commerce, Tech Startup, Entertainment
Grapevine
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Professional platform where companies and agency-level creative freelancers can connect, collaborate and transact without.
DirectLancer
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
DirectLancer is a professional online marketplace for freelance services.
Interview Invite
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
There is a large gap between the way job seekers apply and how companies consume applications. Currently 75% of applications are declined by technology before the recruiter ever see’s them.
Most job seekers lack the basic knowledge of their career path, how to find jobs, how to apply to modern technologies, how to engage with recruiters, self-prepare for interviews and track their progress. Interview Invite is a digital SaaS platform designed that provides job search training courses, career insights and message templates for new grads and job seekers.
We start with career insights and military transition to help job seekers explore different career opportunities. Next we provide training courses to teach talent how to find jobs, how to apply to modern technologies, how to engage with recruiters and self-prepare the interview process.
Then we provide templates to help them create a resume, cover letter, craft an email and track their progress. .
Nuage
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Nuage is a highly-managed, supplier-pick marketplace that acts as intermediary between freelance tech talents and enterprise project owners. We provide end-to-end consulting on tech & data projects, allowing companies to rely on our cloud-certified freelance community to supply them with a broad-spectrum & elastic workforce.
Our unique cloud-native and micro-service approach allows us to split monolithic projects into smaller tasks securely distributed throughout the community, yet we ensure you only ever have one point of contact with our platform, effectively freeing HR bandwidth for your product team. More than a freelancing marketplace, Nuage is a fully-integrated cloud development platform that empowers remote work and open standards..
Lavuro
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Trusted work community marketplace in Latin America
CGI Hive
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
CGI Hive is the first comprehensive freelance marketplace for the CGI industry, matching Clients looking for CGI’s with 3D Artists worldwide. CGI Hive offers an online common revision area and a pre-defined workflow to follow, making the revision process accessible to any grade of experience.
Minimizing miscommunication and mistakes we ensure a smooth process and increase the conversion rate job posted/completed. CGI Hive will represent the “Go-To” service creating a standard workflow in the CGI industry..
Prolancer
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Prolancer is the next-gen marketplace for remote working and smart talent-sourcing in the niche fields of Software, Data Science and Advanced Programming (AI/ML). We use advanced technologies to help businesses to connect better, hire faster and work smarter with top rated professionals.
Prolancer platform is designed for continuous professional development and focuses on improving efficiency, teamwork collaboration and increasing organisational productivity. We strive to provide a modern, fair and balanced work environment, ensuring that all freelancers have an equal opportunity to find their ideal remote jobs; also providing strong provision and support to all employers to hire, collaborate and grow..
SEO Expert Bangalore
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
SEO Expert Bangalore – The One-Stop Solution for All SEO & Digital Marketing Freelance Services
YOVI
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
A virtual hub for businesses to collaborate with a talented network of freelancers
Sollective
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Sollective is an invite-only freelancer network where companies can directly hire great talent inside & outside of Japan
Plenty Finance
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Anxiety-free budgeting for freelancers
relak.co
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
The future of work is already here. At relak.co, we believe your dreams of working and living remotely should be more than just a fantasy.
That’s why we created our community, relakalittle – to help you live your future now. From the hills of Hollywood to the streets of Shoreditch in London, our team stretches far and wide.
We’re a tried and tested example of how remote work can work, and now we want you to experience it, too. We do this by asking you to adopt our #relaxalittle motto.
It’s a concept our founder Adriana Nem imagined while working remotely in different parts of the world and comes from the Singlish, (Singaporean English) relak a corner, meaning relax a little.. .
Supercreative
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Find and work with super web designers.
Xavio
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Xavio is a company which is made entirely for India-like client environment. Freelancing in booming in world and there are many platforms for freelancing, but in a country like India clients still believe in meet-up and discuss the deal, even if it is a small project.
They want trust build up. So we started two-side platform where we listen to both side.
Our business-maker meets the client to get the details and project and then upload the whole detail with audio description to make the demands more clear and our nerd team just only have to work. The nerds, or we can say developers and designers don’t need to discuss and try to make client understand thing.
They just need to do work. Thus, making the freelancing more trustworthy and free from disputes of understandings.
Xavio was established in 2019, Its main aim is to break the traditional 9-5 job timeline and reduce the limitation of finding the workable team for specific project. We at Xavio bring people with skills all around the world to work on your project..
Stable.work
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
A freelance marketplace to find, hire & manage the best sales talent
Projecton
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Our Story Projecton’s story begins more than a year ago, when two computer programmers from southeast Nigeria works together to create the mostly used freelancer platform that is innovative and straight forward. Since projecton was founded, we have helped more than 2,000 people succeed in their business, have quality services.
What We Do Through Projecton businesses get more done, connecting with people to work on projects from web and mobile app development to SEO, social media marketing, content writing, graphic design, admin help and thousands of other projects. Projecton makes it fast, simple, and cost-effective to find, hire, work with, and pay the best professionals anywhere, any time..
Telecom Galore
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Telecom Galore is a cloud communications platform that provides freelancers and small businesses communication solutions.
OKRs.app
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Okrs.app specializes in Objectives and Key Results allowing start-ups and freelancers to set goals and carry out planning and forecasting.
Apiari Business
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
SaaS platform for independent in-home service providers to better market themselves and manage their jobs more efficiently.
Crowd Employee
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Crowd employee is a crowd working platform that pays crowd workers in monetary rewards as payment for providing services to brands.
Sidesupply
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Sidesupply helps businesses discover unique workshops and sessions created by local professionals and skilled people.
Gigstar.app
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Hiring for short term jobs is time consuming and costly, no wonder why staffing agencies set their prices sky high. We use technology to save those cost and provide satisfied workers who wants to enjoy their freedom of choice.
Gigstar offers highly motivated and reliable workers for instant jobs in many industries efficiently saving time and money. Gigstar is made to be easy to join, easy to use with Payment systems and infrastructure – Profiles – Reviews – Transparent information – Better search and matching algorithm..
Narrato
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Marketplace and suite of tools to get quality Content fast, for websites and marketing.
Hypelance
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Hypelance is an ever-growing community for freelancers, entrepreneurs and content creators. Our aim is to provide a marketplace, yet also offering opportunities for you to build yourself a brand image, create connections with others and share your interests with similar minded people.
Learn more here : https://hypelance.com/community-guidelines/. .
profiUp
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Hiring professional services is difficult and time consuming. How to find these professionals? Which one is the right one? Do they even have time to do the job? Listing directories aren’t offering the right solution as the customer doesn’t get the information in an easy-to-understand format and still needs to contact each of the professionals, and professionals usually need to pay in order to show up in the first positions.
profiUp is a freemium Saas marketplace which connects local professionals to customers looking to hire them. Request a quotation in less than 2 minutes to all the professionals in your area and let the interested ones contact you in-platform..
Hacktiv
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Hacktiv focuses on Business Application implementation, leveraging the power of the tech community to provide expert services.
HungerKarma
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Feed the Hungry. Earn good Karma.
Connecting excess, unwanted food, stuff donors (Hunger Warriors) with the hungry, needy through our expert Hunger Heroes.. .
Remotejobs.asia
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Remotejobs.asia provide remote and freelance jobs from the web.
Growthcable
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Start an Online Business, Make Money Online, Tools Recommendation
Global Plenitude
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Global Plenitude is a global online job market for refugees, creating opportunities as a solution for the refugee crisis.
Freelance Rating
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Freelance Rating is an intermediary portal that brings employers and freelancers at once by providing recruiting services and rating system.
Market Lancing
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Find over millions of freelancers here at Market Lancing. A genuine buyer and seller website with zero commission fee from buyers.
ArYuCareers.com
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
ArYu Careers is a full services job site located in India.
Dev Design
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Dev Design offers digital outsourcing for freelancers, startups and small business.
Hi-Story
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Hi-Story provides human resource management services for freelancers.
Ourspark
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Ourspark is an online marketplace where employers & freelance experts connect quickly and effortlessly.
BlueAvo
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
BlueAvo’s is Africa’s creative marketplace. Connects brands to a network of premium – amateur creatives across Africa, to service all their creative briefs.
From animation to VFX and live production, all your creative needs are covered. The platform enables global brands, agencies and startups to discover, collaborate and create content with the continent’s largest creative network – bringing a fresh look and experience to design and creativity..
Saturn Work
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Freelancing platform that is safe and easy to use
Softwork
Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Softwork is an online platform that engages freelancers and companies to connect and collaborate.
