DesignCrowd News and Press



TechCrunch

CrowdSourcing Platform For Creative Projects DesignCrowd Raises $3 Million

02 Nov 2011 | TechCrunch
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Australian-based crowdsourcing website for creative projects DesignCrowd has received a $3 million investment Starfish Ventures.

DesignCrowd allows anyone to upload a design project, set a deadline, set a budget and invite the platform’s group designers. The startup says that on average 25 to 100-plus custom designs are submitted from designers around the world, and the project manager can then decide which one suits his needs.
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BRW

DesignCrowd on Cloud Nine

10 Nov 2011 | BRW
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A Melbourne venture capital manager, Starfish Ventures, has invested $3 million in a Sydney company, DesignCrowd.com, a graphic design website with plans to open an office in Silicon Valley.

Lynch says designers can be paid on DesignCrowd even if they don’t win the design contest. "We get good designers and creators on every project, and consistent quality so there is no luck involved."
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Anthill

Australian crowdsourcing start-up DesignCrowd receives $3 million

07 Nov 2011 | Anthill
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The Australian venture capital firm Starfish Ventures has invested $3 million in DesignCrowd, according to a media release dispatched on Thursday.

The Australian start-up, a design crowdsourcing community with more than 40,000 registered graphic designers, plans to use the new investment to launch two new services in 2012 and to expand its client base outside Australia.
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Zdnet

DesignCrowd scores $3m, set to go abroad

04 Nov 2011 | Zdnet
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Sydney-based start-up DesignCrowd has scored $3 million in venture capital from Melbourne firm Starfish Ventures and is planning to use the funding to expand internationally.

DesignCrowd provides an online marketplace for businesses to crowdsource their creative projects to others.
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Delimiter

VCs plough $14m into crowdsourcing startups

04 Nov 2011 | Delimiter
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This week DesignCrowd announced Melbourne investment house Starfish Ventures had invested $3 million in the company. The money will allow the Sydney company to further expand globally.

"We’ve done well in Australia, now we want to take on the world, and Starfish is the perfect partner to help us succeed," said Lynch in a statement issued yesterday.
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SmartCompany

Sydney crowdsourcing firm DesignCrowd receives $3 million investment from Starfish Ventures

04 Nov 2011 | SmartCompany
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Sydney-based crowd sourcing design website DesignCrowd has finalised a $3 million investment from local venture capital firm Starfish Ventures, with founder and chief executive Alec Lynch saying the money will be used to break into international markets.

"Our kind of growth plans really require a capital injection, and this is exactly what we need to take the business further out from Australia and adopt some new product ideas," Lynch told SmartCompany this morning.
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TechnologySpectator

DesignCrowd secures $3m investment from Starfish Ventures

04 Nov 2011 | TechnologySpectator
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Sydney-based crowd-sourced graphic design website DesignCrowd has received a $3 million investment from Melbourne venture capital firm Starfish Ventures.

DesignCrowd, which was founded in 2007, is now a multi-million dollar business with clients spanning 159 countries, and has 40,000 registered graphic designers from around the world
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iTWire

Aussie start-up attracts venture capital, again!

04 Nov 2011 | iTWire
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Australian Internet start-up company, DesignCrowd.com, has had an injection of $3 million by Melbourne-based venture capital firm, Starfish Ventures, as it seeks to further expand its business into the global market. It is the second time, in tough economic times, that the company has secured investment funding.
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B&T Magazine

Crowdsource startup DesignCrowd secures funding

04 Nov 2011 | B&T Magazine
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Australian internet start-up Design Crowd has received a $3m investment from venture capital firm Starfish Ventures.

The online marketplace that helps businesses around the world outsource or ‘crowdsource’ creative projects was founded in 2008.
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mUmBRELLA

Crowdsourcing design company receives $3m investment

04 Nov 2011 | mUmBRELLA
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Australian internet start-up company DesignCrowd has received a $3m investment from the venture capital film Starfish Ventures. DesignCrowd is an online marketplace to help businesses crowdsource creative projects.
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The Sydney Morning Herald

Aussie tech gold rush: 'nothing off limits'

03 Nov 2011 | The Sydney Morning Herald
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Today crowd-sourced graphic design website DesignCrowd, based in Sydney, announced it had received a $3 million investment from Melbourne venture capital firm Starfish Ventures.

Its founder, Alec Lynch, 27, started the company with $10,000 in capital – which quickly grew to $60,000 after he tapped three credit cards and his family for loans – on his parent's kitchen table.
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StartupSmart

Crowdsourcing start-up DesignCrowd snares $3 million Starfish funding

03 Nov 2011 | StartupSmart
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Crowdsourcing start-up DesignCrowd is to accelerate its global expansion after securing a $3 million investment from heavyweight Australian VC firm Starfish Ventures.

The site acts as an online marketplace for designers, allowing businesses to "crowdsource" creative projects. More than 40,000 designers are registered to the site, across 159 countries. A New Zealand site recently launched, with further international expansion planned.
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The Sydney Morning Herald

Ideas anyone? Anyone?

19 Jun 2011 | The Sydney Morning Herald
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The voice of the crowd has never been louder. We're tweeting opinions, broadcasting amateur news footage, offering marketing ideas from the warehouse floor. Now businesses big and small are harnessing that collective creativity through crowdsourcing - a trend that is taking problem solving to the world.

A company would traditionally hire an agency and pay about $5000 for a handful of logo designs that might take a month to arrive. On sites such as DesignCrowd, clients can post a brief in minutes, choose a budget and typically expect 50 to 100 submissions within 10 days.
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The Next Web

Indian web designer earns $10,000 in a month through DesignCrowd

20 Apr 2011 | The Next Web
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Arun Bhattachary, a Kolkata designer, has made $10,000 over the course of four weeks using DesignCrowd.

According to Amanda Hackwith in Freelance Confidential, the average freelance web designer at the higher end of the spectrum makes $60,000 a year — that’s $5,000 a month, half of what Bhattachary has earned.

There’s no denying that in countries rife with poverty — where the average wage is $1,000 in a year — DesignCrowd, 99designs and related companies are doing some good and helping locals rise above the perception that their work is cheap and low quality.
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SmartCompany

Hot 30 Under 30 Startups

19 Apr 2011 | SmartCompany
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Online outsourcing and design contests have become a massive area of growth on the internet. The desire of more and more businesses to post work contracts to be bid for by the population of the internet has helped Alec Lynch turn his business DesignCrowd into a thriving concern.

DesignCrowd has handed out more than $1 million in work to its freelance community since its launch in 2008, with a 78% increase in the last six months alone. DesignCrowd has also paid $200,000 in participation payments for unsuccessful bidders. Clients have included the Harvard Business School, Fair Trade Australia and Hi Tech shoes, while among DesignCrowd's 10,000 freelance designers are Udaya Kumar, the designer of the Indian rupee symbol.
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The Next Web

DesignCrowd raises capital and acquires US website

15 Apr 2011 | The Next Web
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DesignCrowd, an online graphic design crowdsourcing company ... has acquired and merged with US freelance design website.

DesignCrowd has been growing at an average of 21% month on month for the last year, and the new entity now boasts over [30,212] graphic designers and studios from around the world.

... "crowdsourcing is essentially outsourcing on steroids" and DesignCrowd will offer "more powerful, higher quality and sustainable crowdsourcing by harnessing higher quality designers and offering thousands of participation payments each month to better organise and reward the crowd".
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Fox Business News

Crowdsourcing Website Launches 'Fairer, Better' Crowdsourcing Model

15 Jul 2010 | Fox Business News
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Design crowdsourcing service DesignCrowd has launched an innovative, new design crowdsourcing model that addresses the flaws with the traditional crowdsourcing process through what it calls "Crowdsourcing 2.0" - crowdsourcing where multiple designers get paid.

DesignCrowd now allows customers with graphic design projects to handpick their favorite designers from around the world while keeping the project open to other designers.
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Mashable

15+ Great Ways to Find Web Design and Development Work

02 Apr 2010 | Mashable
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(On Designcrowd) you can browse the design contests in the "web design" category, pick projects you’d like to have a crack at, and set a small "participation 'base' payment" before you submit a design. Once the client picks the favored design, if you’re the design contest winner, DesignCrowd will pay you your fee via PayPal.
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Entrepreneur

New Crowdsourcing Model Lets Agencies and Printing Companies Harness Crowdsourcing

16 Feb 2010 | Entrepreneur
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Crowdsourcing design company DesignCrowd has developed a new crowdsourcing business model to let design agencies, printers & other design related businesses use crowdsourcing with their own clients...

Design studios, ad agencies, printing and web hosting companies can use the new graphic design outsourcing platform to offer design services and crowdsourcing to their own clients and leverage DesignCrowd's 13,000 designers as their own virtual team.
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SmartCompany

Australian crowdsourcing site acquires US rival

25 Nov 2009 | SmartCompany
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Australian online design marketplace DesignCrowd has acquired and merged with US crowdsourcing website in order to expand its business overseas.

The merged business will take the name DesignCrowd.com, and offers designers a marketplace to pitch work for clients who have posted projects on the site, including logo, t-shirt, poster and even business card design.
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Brand Republic

Give Australia a new identity, win £1,000

13 Oct 2009 | Brand Republic
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An Australian design agency has launched a global competition challenging people to rebrand the country, with a A$2000 (£1,015) prize on offer for the winner.

The competition, which calls for people to submit a logo and strapline for the country, is being run by Australian crowdsourcing firm, DesignCrowd.
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Yahoo

Three (Real) Ways to Make Money From Home in Your Spare Time

24 Sep 2009 | Yahoo
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DesignCrowd.com offers designers the chance to submit their work in online "contests" for posted projects. The odd jobs, most paying a couple of hundred dollars, come in from around the world, from small businesses and individuals who need logos or fliers, banner ads and posters.
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The Buffalo News

Virtual ad agencies help the little guys compete

02 Aug 2009 | The Buffalo News
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Web sites such as DesignCrowd allow prospective clients to seek proposal pitches and low-cost quotes from a legion of vendors without dealing with a live person ...
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Dynamic Business

Website launches competition to fix NSW Government logo

20 Jul 2009 | Dynamic Business
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Crowdsourcing website DesignCrowd has launched an unsanctioned $1000 contest to re-design the recently bungled NSW Government logo.
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