Tag: mark harbottle
Influx.com raises $250,000 to businesses deliver better customer experiences
You can expect an influx of good customer service in Australia soon.
Influx.com has just announced a $250,000 seed investment from 99designs Founder Mark Harbottle, angel...
With second acquisition, 99designs breaks into a BRIC market
99designs, one of the best examples of the recent breed of Australian startups that are birthed with a global vision, has already created the...
Learnable.com’s $10 million giveaway designed to give Australian kids coding education, and a future
The first 10,000 Australian students to sign up for the Learnable for Schools program, which kicked off 19 August, will get three years of free access to Learnable.com, a global online learning company that teaches computer coding. It means each student gets $1,000 worth of online coding services ranging from books, tutorials and counseling normally sold at $29 per month, or for $180 per year.
Harbottle’s 99designs sets out to shape its future
For some time now, Germany has been on 99design’s horizon. Even though it had only an English-language site, European small businesses and startups accounted for about 15% of the 155,000 graphic design contests, reflecting strong potential. Today, 99designs considers Germany its top non-English language market, its fifth largest overall and one of its fastest growing.
99designs founder Mark Harbottle sets new designs on Tweaky.com
So you wanted to add a Facebook link to your website and couldn't find somebody willing to do it at reasonable cost, and in...
99designs launches fancy new Australian site, as DesignCrowd triples revenue
99designs, the world’s largest design marketplace, has gone and got itself a localised website. The announcement comes snapping at the heels of its whopping $35 million first-round capital investment from Accel Partners – the fellas what invested in Facebook, Dropbox and Etsy -- and the launch of local rival DesignCrowd.
Australian upstart 99designs raises $35 million from Facebook’s VC outfit [ANTHILL EXCLUSIVE]
Today, 99designs, the world's largest online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design services, announced a $35 million first-round investment led by Accel Partners. In this exclusive podcast for Anthill, 99designs co-founder Mark Harbottle speaks with James Tuckerman about the deal and what it means for the 26-person company based in Collingwood, Victoria.
