Queritel

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Queritel Limited
"De-risking Opportunity"

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Type of business	Private LLC
Type of site	Business Intelligence: ‣ Market Data ‣ Legal Services ‣ Industry Insights
Available in	English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch
Headquarters	Kingston , Jamaica
Area served	United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands, South Africa, Ghana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, British Virgin Islands, US Virgin Islands, Grenada, Turks & Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands, Panama, Dominican Republic
Founder(s)	Shani Bennett & Kevonne Martin
Key people	Shani Bennett, CEO Kevonne Martin, COO Marseille Skyers, CFO
Industry	Agriculture, Banking, Finance, Education, Entertainment, Food, Beverage, Laws, Regulations, Population, Statistics, Telecommunications, Transport, Tourism
Products	Queritel Business Queritel Legal Queritel Field Insights
Employees	20+
Website	queritel.com
Registration	User & Service Providers - Free
Launched	December 13, 2016
Current status	Active

Queritel (/ˈkwiritɛl/) is a business intelligence platform that connects businesses and entrepreneurs to a global population of vetted/rated freelance researchers and legal service providers. Queritel.com connects businesses and entrepreneurs to pools of freelance market/industry experts and legal service providers who have access to hyperlocal information/data or the skills they need to make business decisions. Queritel also allows clients to scale freelance research teams to physically conduct surveys (in streets, communities, commercial districts, cities etc.) and have those insights uploaded in real time.

Orgin

Queritel was co-founded in 2016 by Shani Bennett and Kevonne Martin while at the University of the West Indies (UWI), as Law and Marketing Majors. The company was originally named Research Aid Plus and targeted students with research assignments as its customer segment. In February 2018 the company released its second version of its web-based platform to serve its new target market; businesses and entrepreneurs.

Operation

Queritel Business

Queritel business allows customers to have market, legal and industry queries answered by local experts or researchers. Customers send out tasks and receive bids from pre-screened providers. According to Bennett, "what sometimes happens is that our contractors actually bid for jobs and the client may opt for one or the other, depending on that researcher's rating." By providing this small data, companies are best poised to take advantage of business opportunities.

Queritel Legal

Queritel is seen as a disruptive innovator in the market for legal services. Queritel's push to use machine learning and computer technology to make specialist legal services more affordable and more accessible have been noted by various stakeholders. Queritel through its legal technology allows customers to have critical legal services done by local or overseas legal professionals who are specialist in their respective fields with a success rate of 90% or more. In some cases, law professors and lecturers recommend top-tier students to serve as paralegals on Queritel.com. All legal service providers are subjected to rigorous assessments and vetting.

Queritel Field Insights

Queritel Field Insights allows customers to scale freelance research teams of up 100 to physically survey streets, communities, cities and commercial districts (anywhere in the world) and have those insights uploaded in real time. Queritel is reducing the data and legal risk businesses face when starting, investing or expanding. Reliance on the wrong information, seriously damages business prospects. To get accurate information, it’s important to use authoritative data from trusted sources.

Traction

PitchIT Caribbean

• Queritel (then as Research Aid Plus) entered the PitchIT Caribbean challenge and placed in the top 10. PitchIT Caribbean recognized Queritel as one of the best startups in the Caribbean.

University of the West Indies Vincent Hosang Venture Capital Programme (UWI VC)

• Queritel entered the Mona School of Business and Management's University of the Indies Vincent Hosang Venture Capital Programme (UWI VC) in 2017 and copped the 3rd place prize of $150,000 Dollars and Best Undergraduate Team.

National Business Model Competition

• In March 2018 Queritel.com emerged as the winners of the National Business Model Competition (NBMC) sponsored by the Development Bank of Jamaica, earning 2 million JMD.

International Business Model Competition

• In May 2018 Queritel participated in the International Business Model Competition (IBMC) in Provo, Utah Placing 8th and receiving an Honorable Mention.

Democratizing Innovation in the Americas (DIA)

• In July 2018 Queritel participated in the Organization of American States's DIA Innovation Lab where they placed 1st for the region. Queritel received commendations from the Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security Senator Charles Jr. as well as an advertising and marketing grant from CitiBank.

Usership

• As of December 2018 Queritel.com has served 5111 clients in 21 countries with over 1 Million people visiting the platform.

Online Metrics

• There are over 6700 Service Providers on Queritel: [66% - Market/Industry Experts | 44% - Legal Service Providers]

Recognition

In November 2018 Queritel.com was recognized by Web Summit as one of the worlds top 10% of tech startups. Queritel was invited to joined its world renowned Alpha Program which "spotlights the early stage startups engineering the future, connecting them to the world’s most influential companies, investors, and media."

References

• Official website

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