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Contact: tomas@workana.com | Skype: toofarrell What we do: Marketplace for freelance and remote employment. Target markets: Brazil, Spanish-‐speaking Latin America and US Hispanics. Founded: April 2012. Competitors: Odesk, Elance, Freelancer (international), Nubelo (local). Our business model: Free to join and post, open bidding. Workana gets 15% of money agreed. Traction: Average growth rate of 30% month over month since launch. Over 70.000 registered workers. Founders: Tomás O'Farrell -‐ CEO: Co-‐Founder Sonico/Fnbox. Raised $6mm from DN Capital and selected angels. Developed Fnbox to a $13mm/year business. Fernando Fornales -‐ CIO: Former CTO at Sonico. Built the architecture to scale the site to 55 million users. CTO at Panarea, developing tablet apps targeted at education. Mariano Iglesias -‐ CTO: Founder at Cricava, #1 developing firm at freelancing portal vWorker.com. Co-‐founder at Stracienta, business management solution provider. Guillermo Bracciaforte -‐ COO: 5 years working for Google in operations roles, last 2 in Brazil. Launched successful operations for DoubleClick Rich Media in Latin America. Seed investors: Evenbase (a DMGT business), NXTP Labs, Diego Meller, Gabriel Rozman, Gustavo Herrero, Juan Pablo Cappello, Marco Giberti, Shaun Abrahamson, among others. Financials: Investment raised: $675k Monthly Burn Rate: $40k Monthly Marketplace Value: $35k Awards/Mentions: -‐ TNW Conference Latin America's Start-‐Up Battle -‐ Winner -‐ Latam Start-‐up Challenge -‐ Finalist -‐ Nuevos sitios que cambian la forma de buscar trabajo en la web -‐ 10 Latin American startups to look out for in 2013 www.Workana.com Contact: tomas@workana.com | Skype: toofarrell