[NEWS] Newly-renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its outsourced design platform – Loganspace

Superside, a startup aiming to construct a top class replacement to the unusual crowdsourced invent platforms, is saying that it has raised $3.5 million in unusual funding.

It’s also including unusual factors love the flexibility to work on user interfaces, interplay invent and motion graphics. Co-founder and CEO Fredrik Thomassen talked about this allows the corporate to produce “a fleshy-provider invent acknowledge.”

You possibly might even hang heard about Superside under its worn titleKonsus. Ina blog post, Thomassen outlined the most contemporary trade in title and branding, writing, “We changed our title and glimpse to align with what we had turn out to be: The area’s top crew of global designers and creatives.”

He urged me Superside changed into as soon as created to take care of his comprise frustrations after looking out for to utilize marketplaces love 99designs and Fiverr. He argued that there’s an place with “destructive resolution on those platforms.” In other words, “The handiest other folks … don’t stay, because they don’t hang a profession route — they’re combating with other freelancers to rep the roles.”

Superside, alternatively, is choosy in regards to the designers it works with — it claims to determine 100 designers from the larger than 50,000 purposes it receives every 365 days. Nonetheless if they’re permitted, they’re guaranteed fleshy-time work.

Thomassen talked about the platform is constructed for great enterprises which hang their comprise invent and advertising and marketing groups however restful want extra toughen. Customers encompass Uber, LinkedIn, L’Oreal, Cisco, Santander, Amazon, Walmart Tiffany & Co. Hewlett Packard and Airbus

As smartly as to picking staunch designers, Superside also constructed a broader mission administration platform.

“We’re in most cases automating every little thing: Discovering other folks, screening other folks, on-boarding, on-the-job studying, invoicing of customers, mission administration, the entire nitty gritty,” Thomassen talked about. “The handiest thing no longer computerized is invent — that’s where the human element and the creativity advance in.”

Plus, Thomassen talked about Superside can turn around a oldschool fragment of artwork in 12 hours: “No person else can mark what we’re doing by methodology of tempo.”

The unusual funding comes fromFreestyle Capital,with participation from Excessive Alpha Ventures, Y Combinator and Alliance Ventures.

“We’re very mighty a mission-pushed company,” Thomassen added. “For me, the reason to lunge to work in the morning is to abet originate a internet labor market and construct equal economic replacement for each person in the world.”