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CrowdWorks

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Japan's largest online freelance talent marketplace

Tokyo, JapanFounded 2011eCommerce & Marketplaces
Valuation $57M Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $170M Latest reported FY
EBITDA $4.5M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2011
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Listing
IPO 2014
Sector
eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law
Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

Founder mafia, market maps, research and news connected to this company by Dealroom

Investors

10 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed5 investors entered at this stage

  • Teruhide Sato
  • Ryota Matsuzaki
  • Takeo Ozawa
  • CyberAgent Capital
  • Shintaro Yamada

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

  • Itochu Technology Ventures
  • Suneight Investment

Series B and later3 investors entered at this stage

  • J-Startup
  • DG Incubation
  • Dentsu Innovation Partners

Talent

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
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

Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where CrowdWorks was the 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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        CrowdWorks's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        8 of 8 deals

        Market sentiment

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

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