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The $95 Million Bet on the Boring Part of Freelance Work
Fiverr bought Stoke Talent to solve the part of freelancing nobody puts in the recruitment ad: contracts, classification, budgets and one very complicated monthly bill.
The Freelancer Was Never the Mess. The System Around Them Was.
Publicist began by matching brands with marketers. Six years and 50,000 specialists later, its customers had taught it a stranger lesson: finding the person was only the beginning.
Upwork has a new job: making AI hire humans
The freelance marketplace built a business around finding people who could do the work. Now it must prove that AI will send enough new work their way.
Matrix and the art of making hiring less chaotic
Councils need temporary workers. They also need to know where the money goes. Matrix has built a business around the awkward space between the two.
Sonovate Found Its Fortune in the 90-Day Gap Between Work and Payment
Recruiters pay people this Friday and may not collect from clients until next quarter. Sonovate turned that awkward interval into a specialist lender, a software platform and, most recently, a testing ground for digital workers.
Before Alex Kevork Marketed Work, He Wired the Stage
A festival electrician became a product marketer by following the wires behind the show. Two decades later, Magnit Global's CMO still treats marketing as practical craft: listen closely, learn the machinery and make the complicated feel human.
Brillius Spent a Decade Selling DevOps Talent. Now It Wants to Train the People AI Might Leave Behind
The Pleasanton IT firm built its business by supplying technical hands and fixing delivery pipelines. Its latest bet is more revealing: turn that field experience into guided, hands-on training for engineers navigating the jump from DevOps to AIOps.
Anju Abel Built a Career on the Part of Staffing Spreadsheets Miss
The LanceSoft CEO arrived in New York with optimism, built her way through the machinery of contingent work, and now argues that the industry’s most useful technology is still a human connection.
The $1.6 Billion Business of Making Labor Move on Demand
TrueBlue began with one Labor Ready branch and a blunt promise: put people to work quickly. Today, its apps, recruiters and on-site teams form an unusually broad operating system for the variable workforce.
The Staffing Company Trying to Turn Hospital Chaos Into a Control Panel
Cross Country Healthcare spent four decades putting people into hard-to-fill shifts. Its next act is to make the whole labor system visible - and, under new private ownership, prove that staffing data can be as valuable as staffing itself.
BayOne Solutions
BayOne built a sizable business by selling two things enterprises usually buy separately: the technology work and the people who make it run. Now its bet on AI, managed delivery and diverse talent is turning a staffing heritage into a broader transformation play.
Peoplelink Group
Peoplelink Group is a South Bend, Indiana-based family of staffing and workforce-solutions companies founded in 1987. Operating a portfolio of specialized brands across administrative, light industrial, skilled trades, IT, professional, and quality-inspection services, it connects more than 5,000 workers with employers nationwide each day. Led by CEO Christophe Jeusse and backed by French staffing group Groupe CRIT, the company blends nationwide reach with a boutique, relationship-driven service model built on People, Process, and Performance.
Infotech Spectrum Inc
Infotech Spectrum Inc is a Santa Clara, California IT consulting and professional staffing firm founded in 2003. It pairs contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement staffing with delivery services spanning strategic IT consulting, enterprise software, cloud, and computer systems validation (CSV) for regulated life sciences work. Working with clients such as Gilead, Genentech, Cisco, and Juul, the roughly 86-person company blends onsite Silicon Valley talent with a global delivery model to help enterprises staff hard-to-fill roles and ship technology projects on schedule and on budget.
LanceSoft, Inc.
LanceSoft is a global, minority-owned workforce solutions and technology staffing company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. A certified Minority Business Enterprise and Woman-owned firm, it supplies temporary and permanent talent, Statement of Work services, payrolling, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, and engineering and application-development solutions to more than 110 enterprise and Fortune clients across banking, healthcare, technology, government, telecom, energy, and semiconductor sectors. With over 5,000 professionals and offices spanning six continents and 50-plus countries, LanceSoft pairs large-scale sourcing with a self-described 'human touch' approach to connecting talent with opportunity.
Jon Beck
Jon Beck is the Founder and CEO of Ursus, Inc., a San Francisco-based staffing firm he built from scratch in 2015 into one of the fastest-growing in the U.S., recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts for four consecutive years. A UC Berkeley psychology graduate and three-time rugby All-American, Beck brings 25+ years of technology executive experience across startups and global enterprises — including a stint at Cisco-acquired Embrane — to a company built around technical and creative talent for the digital transformation era.
Anthony Mironov
Anthony Mironov is the co-founder and CEO of Wingspan, a New York fintech building payroll and benefits infrastructure for the 1099 economy. After a career in private equity and a stint as a freelancer who got tired of reverse-engineering his own paycheck, he started Wingspan in 2019 with Greg Franczyk. The company has processed more than $3 billion in contractor payments and raised $54 million, betting that as one in three American workers go independent, the back office for that work needs to be rebuilt from scratch.