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Latin America's Freelancers Needed a Home. Workana Built One, Then Took It to Asia.
Founded in Buenos Aires in 2012, Workana turned a region full of remote talent and no dedicated marketplace into the largest freelance platform in Latin America, with more than two million professionals and a growing outpost in Southeast Asia.
Indeed Is Rebuilding the Job Hunt Around the Match, Not the Search
The internet's biggest jobs index is turning itself into a two-sided matching machine. Its advantage is not a clever chatbot - it is two decades of signals about what people click, apply for and ultimately get hired to do.
AMN Healthcare
AMN began by placing traveling nurses. Forty years later, it sells health systems something broader: the people, software and operating discipline to keep care moving when labor gets scarce, expensive or suddenly unavailable.
Contrario
Contrario is a San Francisco AI recruiting company that pairs specialized human recruiters with AI agents to source, screen, and deliver vetted candidates to startups within days. Founded in 2025 by Stanford dropouts Arya Marwaha and Aditya Sood, it operates as a hybrid between a traditional agency and recruiting software, using AI talent scorecards and graph-based matching while automating scheduling and follow-ups. The company reached roughly $6M in annualized revenue and paid over $1M to recruiters within six months of operating, and raised a $2.3M seed led by Nexus Venture Partners.
Outsized
Outsized is a curated talent-on-demand platform that connects large enterprises and consulting firms with vetted independent consultants, subject-matter experts, interims and fractional professionals across Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2016 and focused on financial services, it pairs management-consulting rigor with deep industry domain expertise, handling matching, contracting, invoicing and payments so clients can staff transformation, risk, data and digital projects in days rather than months.
Paro
Paro is a Chicago-based, AI-powered marketplace that connects businesses and accounting firms with vetted fractional finance and accounting experts - from bookkeepers and controllers to fractional CFOs. Founded in 2015, it pairs its proprietary matching algorithms across 60+ industries and 250+ skill sets with data tools and advisory insight, aiming to become the go-to resource for finance and accounting solutions as the profession faces a deepening talent shortage.
Reejig
Reejig is an enterprise workforce-intelligence company that has repositioned itself as a Work Operating System for AI-powered work. Founded in Sydney in 2019 and now headquartered in New York, it maps every job, task and workflow inside an organisation into a structured Work Ontology and Work Context Graph, then uses independently audited Ethical AI to help companies redesign work, deploy AI agents, and measure the hours and value unlocked. It works with large enterprises such as Salesforce, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson and Mastercard, and pursues a mission it calls Zero Wasted Potential.
CloudTask
CloudTask is a Miami Beach-based go-to-market marketplace and managed-services provider that helps B2B and SaaS companies hire vetted remote sales, customer success, and support talent - plus agencies and software - in as little as 48 hours. Founded in 2014 by Amir Reiter, the bootstrapped company sources pre-vetted, primarily Latin American SaaS professionals with video profiles and transparent pricing, and has expanded into a broader RevOps ecosystem covering SDR/BDR staffing, lead generation, conversational marketing, and the emerging category of GTM engineers.
Paraform
Paraform is a San Francisco recruiting platform that connects companies with a network of 10,000+ independent recruiters and pairs them with custom AI agents to fill hard roles fast. Instead of betting that software alone can screen resumes, Paraform keeps humans in the loop and gives them AI tools plus white-glove operational support, handling intake calls, hiring-manager feedback, and payments. Companies like Palantir, Rippling, Cursor, and Cognition use it to meet candidates in days rather than months. Founded in 2022 by John Kim and Jeffrey Li, the company has raised $65M total, most recently a $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners in March 2026.
Laborup
Laborup is a Knoxville, Tennessee startup building an AI-powered recruiting platform for America's skilled industrial workforce - the machinists, welders, and maintenance techs that keep factories running. Founded in 2024 by former Stanford AI researcher Tasimba 'Simba' Jonga, it uses voice-first AI agents to interview and profile blue-collar workers in minutes, then matches employers to a vetted network of thousands of tradespeople. The company pitches itself as the 'LinkedIn of manufacturing,' promising faster time-to-fill, lower cost-per-hire, and better retention, and has raised roughly $7.7M in total funding.
Talently
Talently is a Latin American tech-talent marketplace that connects US and global companies with senior, bilingual, AI-vetted software engineers and digital professionals across LATAM. Founded in Peru in 2018, it began as an upskilling platform and pivoted into a hiring and staff-augmentation engine that delivers vetted candidate shortlists in 48-72 hours and gets teams up and running in about 21 days. The company blends automated technical and English screening with human-led evaluations for culture and communication fit, and handles contracts, payroll, compliance, and IP.
MarketerHire
MarketerHire is a San Francisco-based talent marketplace that connects companies with pre-vetted, on-demand marketing experts - from fractional CMOs to paid-media specialists - typically matched within 48 hours via its proprietary MarketerMatch algorithm.
Mercor
Mercor is an AI-powered talent marketplace that recruits domain experts - doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists - to train and evaluate frontier AI models for labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Amazon. Founded in 2023 by three Thiel Fellows, it has grown from a hiring tool into the human data backbone of the AI economy.