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CrowdWorks

eCommerce & Marketplaces · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2011 · IPO 2014

Japan's largest online freelance talent marketplace

Valuation $57M
Revenue $170M
EBITDA $4.5M

Talent graph

CrowdWorks's talent

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

10 investors on CrowdWorks's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records.

Seed 5 investors entered at this stage
Teruhide Sato
Ryota Matsuzaki
Takeo Ozawa
CyberAgent Capital
Shintaro Yamada
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Itochu Technology Ventures
Suneight Investment
Series B+ 3 investors entered at this stage
J-Startup
DG Incubation
Dentsu Innovation Partners

Global footprint

Where CrowdWorks has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
9 countries with
team presence
🇯🇵 Japan85.3%
🇦🇺 Australia4%
🇨🇦 Canada2.7%
🇨🇳 China1.3%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.3%
Top 5 of 9 shown
Web traffic by country
23K monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan83.9%
🇺🇸 United States11.3%
🇻🇳 Vietnam3%
Top 3 markets shown

Capital deployed

CrowdWorks's 8 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where CrowdWorks appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2015–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

8 deals across CrowdWorks's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        CrowdWorks's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        8 of 8 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about CrowdWorks

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about CrowdWorks on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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