Aiming To Improve Way Of Working, Crowdworks Raises Capital From CyberAgent /Cnet Japan

Crowdworks announced to conduct allocation of new shares to CyberAgent Ventures and individual investors. It does not disclose the amount.  With the capital, in addition to strengthen business base, it will hire engineers for closed beta version of CrowdWorks, a crowd sourcing service for creators planned to release on February 2012.

Crowdworks was founded at November 11th. CrowdWorks allows engineers and creators to accept orders of development of smartphone applications or web sites from customers on the web. It also aims to allow creators to make proposal to customers. ...

Cnet Japan 12/6/2011　[jp]

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• There are some translation services such as MyGengo and Anydoor for crowd sourcing startups. It may be the first crowd sourcing startup for engineers in Japan.
• http://www.crowdworks.co.jp/