Freelance-Market

Freelance-Market is a group of online marketplaces where companies find and hire contractors directly, without going through a recruitment agent. It was created in 2004 together with the economist and Nobel laureate Reinhard Selten, and it grows by licensing its model to local operators.

What Freelance-Market offers

• Contractor marketplaces — sites where clients search for and hire freelance professionals, without registering to search.
• Licensing — operators can run a general marketplace for a country or a sector one, such as translators or lecturers.
• Licensee platform — a localised marketplace with its own domain, hosting, maintenance and an automated admin system.
• Licensee support — technical support, a detailed process handbook, market-entry coaching and benchmarking with other operators.

Who it works with

Its marketplaces are used by small and medium firms and by large companies, with Bosch and Lufthansa named. It is seeking licensees, notably for France, Pakistan and the United States.

Key facts

• Founded: 2004
• Reach: Marketplaces in eight countries
• Co-developer: Reinhard Selten, Nobel laureate in economics