Toptal
| Toptal logo | |
| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Freelance marketplace, Online outsourcing, Employment website |
| Founded 📆 | 2010 Silicon Valley, California, U.S. |
| Founders 👔 | Taso Du Val, Breanden Beneschott |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Taso Du Val (CEO) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Toptal is an American company that provides freelance software engineers, designers, and finance experts to companies. The company uses virtual teams and has no dedicated offices.[1][2]
History and operations[edit]
The company was founded in 2010 by Taso Du Val, who serves as the company's CEO[1] and Breanden Beneschott, who was a student at Princeton at the time.[2] The original business model was to provide highly skilled software engineers to large corporate clients. The company reportedly has over 2,000 clients.[3]
In July 2013, LinkedIn received complaints from members about advertisments submitted by Toptal which featured professional headshots of women. LinkedIn began removing the ads, and asked Toptal to use different images which related to the product advertised. According to Toptal, the ads included at least one engineer in addition to stock images. LinkedIn restored the ads shortly after, maintaining that the ads were rejected in error.[4] Toptal labelled the removals an example of sexism in the technology industry.[5]
On October 7, 2015, Toptal announced the launch of Toptal Designers, to provide software designers to clients.[1] In November 2015, Toptal was also ranked the #1 fastest growing talent marketplace in North America by consulting firm Deloitte.[6]
In April 2016, Toptal acquired SkillBridge an online platform for business freelancers, for an undisclosed sum.[7]
The company's investors include Andreessen Horowitz,[8] Adam D'Angelo of Quora, and Ryan Rockefeller.[9] Toptal clients include Airbnb,[10] JPMorgan Chase, IDEO, Axel Springer SE, Pfizer, and Rand McNally.[3] Toptal has no offices and is a completely remote team distributed throughout the world.[11][12]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Massive Freelance Engineer Marketplace Toptal Now Sells Designers". techcrunch.com. 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "This startup has no offices and unlimited vacation, and its cofounder has lived in more than 30 countries in 5 years". businessinsider.com. 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Toptal Delivers the Top Three Percent of Developers Worldwide to Help Companies Address the Shortage of Elite Technical Talent". MarketWatch.
- ↑ "LinkedIn Shuts Down Toptal Ads That Featured Photos Of Female Engineers". The Huffington Post.
- ↑ "A Look at Sexism in Technology for Female Software Engineers - Toptal". Toptal Engineering Blog.
- ↑ "Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 500 - Deloitte" (PDF). Deloitte.
- ↑ Darryl K. Taft (6 April 2016). "Toptal Buys Skillbridge to Advance Freelance Tech Market". eWEEK.
- ↑ "A16z Seeds - Andreessen Horowitz". a16z.com.
- ↑ "Toptal - Investors | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
- ↑ "How To Build A Killer Team--Sight Unseen (Infographic) - Inc.com". Inc.com.
- ↑ "Companies Find Tech Talent In Robust Freelance Market".
- ↑ "Why an Ex-Google Coder Makes Twice as Much Freelancing".
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