Five months after raising £525k to “fix” freelance hiring, Shoutt.ai walks away from freelancer recruitment
Funded startup Shoutt.ai abandons freelance recruitment and transitions to permanent hires just five months after raising £525k. Discover why the recruitment market is failing tech startups and how hard it has become to build a sustainable business around freelance recruitment platforms.
In January, Shoutt.ai looked like one of the freelance economy’s good-news stories. Founders Saleem Yaqub and Jonathan Eadie were both freelancers themselves. They raised a £525,000 pre-seed round led by SFC Capital. Their goal was to build an AI agent to end the hours freelancers waste trawling job boards, as The Freelance Informer previously reported.
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