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Enter private
Marketplace for industry freelancers
Established in London, England
2007
Founder Xenios Thrasyvoulou (CEO)
Simos Kitiris (CTO)
Headquarters London, UK
Website www.peopleperhour.com
PeoplePerHour is legally People Per Hour Limited, a UK-based company whose function is to
be an online platform that provides companies with access to freelance workers.
History
Founded in 2007 by Xenios Thrasyvoulou and Simos Kitiris, the company has offices in London
and Athens.
Businesses opting to use the website are often startups or SMEs looking to grow flexibly by
hiring freelancers to handle projects rather than hiring in-house or via agencies. Jobs start from
little as an hour (“Offers”) and can be ramped up as needed to build whole teams online,
meaning the model is scalable all the way up to global enterprises. They operate as part of what
has become part of the “talent cloud” with thousands of freelancers, offerings a range of skills on
a flexible and efficient basis.
As the leading marketplace for freelance talent in the UK, PeoplePerHour holds a powerful
insight into the self-employed segment of the labour market and has created and collaborated on
numerous research projects on SMEs, freelancing, and the gig economy and provides resources
for new and growing businesses and those looking to pursue a freelance career.
There is some debate as to whether the emergence of this type of freelance marketplace is part
of a longer-term structural change in the way that companies across the world manage their
human resources.
Reception
In August 2012, PeoplePerHour was named one of the 100 Hottest Startups in Europe in 2012 by
Wired UK’s Science and Technology Magazine.
In 2012, 50 strong engineering departments moved to Athens. One of PeoplePerHour’s main
investors is Index Ventures, which raised £ 2m ($ 3.2m) in 2012. Mike Volpi has named
PeoplePerHour one of the three “most undervalued companies” in the index portfolio. In the last
seed round, the company raised about £ 425,000.
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