Expert360

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Expert360
EstablishedJuly 2013
FoundersBridget Loudon, Emily Yue
Type Private
Headquarters Sydney, Australia
Key people
Bridget Loudon, Emily Yue, Dmitry Alimov, Gary Swart
Website www.expert360.com

Expert360 is an online marketplace co-founded by Bridget Loudon and Emily Yue and headquartered in Sydney, Australia. [1] Expert360 acts as a digital network for matching independent business consultants with clients (companies, organizations) for short or long-term project work. [2] [3] The company is best known for its innovative approach to both the local and international freelance marketplace. [4] [5]

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Description

Expert360's online platform is structured like a standard freelance marketplace as it provides the tools to potential employers to post and manage jobs of interest to independent consultants in the upper tier employment market. [6] [7] Its main consultant base consists of highly qualified workers with experience in senior or executive positions in large corporations or investment firms. [8] [9] The marketplace also has junior representatives from management consulting and investment firms. [10]

Expert360's clients range from small-medium businesses to enterprises such as QSHR, Woolworths and Telstra, as well as consulting and investment firms. [8] [11] [12] [13]

History

Expert360 launched on July 1, 2013. The company's co-founders, Bridget Loudon and Emily Yue, raised $1 million (AUD) from investors in their first funding round at the end of 2013 [6] [14]

In 2015, Expert360 closed an oversubscribed capital raising round of $4.1 million (AUD), backed by Russian investment fund Frontier Ventures, Australian technology fund Rampersand and several Australian angel investors. [11] Allan Moss AO is also a notable investor of Expert360. [15] On March 30, 2016, the company announced that it was opening an office in New York City in order to expand its reach in the United States. [15] [16] [17]

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  8. 1 2 Foreshew, Jennifer (5 November 2015). "Case Study: Quick Service hits target with Expert 360". Business Spectator . News Corp. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
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  10. ↑ McCauley, Gabriel (14 March 2016). "Four Ways Expert360 Ensures It Has The World's Best Independent Talent". Expert360. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  11. 1 2 Durkin, Patrick (20 July 2015). "Expert360 picks up bluechip backers in $4.1m funding round". BRW . Fairfax Media. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
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  15. 1 2 "Allan Moss-backed Expert360 takes a bite of the Big Apple". Financial Review. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
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