Press Kit
Our mission is to connect one million people in the developing world to basic computer work and raise them up as leaders to address poverty in their own communities.
Press Releases
- CloudFactory Acquires Key Crowdsourcing Competitor and Launches Next Generation Platform - 27th Feb, 2013
- CloudFactory announces plans for 5,000 new computer jobs in Nepal this year - 14th Feb, 2013
- CloudFactory Raises Growth Capital To Create Jobs for 1 Million People - 26th Sept, 2012
- CloudFactory launches at Techcrunch Disrupt SF: a third world startupfighting poverty by connecting businesses to Cloud Labor - 12th Sept, 2012
Other Press Coverage
- TechCrunch - CloudFactory Launches CloudFactory 2.0 Platform After Acquiring SpeakerText & Humanoid - 3rd March, 2013
- NepaliTimes - Crowdsourcing in the cloud - 22nd Feb, 2013
- IBTimes - Can You Use Facebook? You’ve Got A Job In Kathmandu, Nepal, On The New CloudFactory Started By A Digital Entrepreneur - 15th Feb, 2013
- KhabarSouthAsia - CloudFactory aspires to create a million jobs - 29th Nov, 2012
- Reuters - Global army of online freelancers remakes outsourcing industry - 10th Oct, 2012
- CNBC - Tasksumers_ Get a Tiny Job, Earn a Tiny Payment. Repeat. - 10th Oct, 2012
- YourStory - CloudFactory_ Introducing 'Grameen Bank Approaches' To Outsourcing - 7th Oct, 2012
- Creators - CloudFactory and the Global eWorker Revolution by Chris Durst and Michael Haaren on Creators - 4th Oct, 2012
- TechInAsia - Nepal Startup CloudFactory Raises $700,000 Round of Funding - 27th Sept, 2012
- TechHustlers - The Story Behind Mark Sears Cloud Labor Assembly Line, CloudFactory - 22nd Aug, 2012
- TheBackUpList - Get BIG with CloudFactory - 17thth July, 2012
- TrendHunter - Socially Empowering Digital Apps - CloudFactory Provides Jobs Through an Online Work Force - 26th Jun, 2012
- Springwise - Online platform enables outsourcing of digital work and creates jobs in developing countries - 13th Jun, 2012
- PSFK - How Cloudsourcing Will Change The Future Of Work - 2nd Jun, 2012
- TechBlorge - $2 an hour workers join virtual production line - 19th Apr, 2012
- The Next Web - CloudFactory_ Online Work for One Million People - 17th Apr, 2012
- TechInAsia - CloudFactory, From the Heights of Nepal, Can Put 1 Million Cloud Workers Into Business - 22nd Mar, 2012
- Forbes - How Crowdsourcing Is Tackling Poverty In The Developing World - 21st Mar, 2012
- Crowdsourcing - How Cloud Factory Creates Digital Assembly Lines - 16th Dec, 2011
- Crowdsourcing - CloudFactory, a Cloud Labor platform for creating work opportunities for people in developing nations - 16th Sept, 2011
- Crowdsortium - A new member : CloudFactory - 26th Aug, 2011
CloudFactory Glimpse
Fast Facts
- 1500+ cloud workers
- Headquartered in Nepal
- CloudFactory launched at Techcrunch Disrupt 2011 in San Francisco
- Mark Sears, Canadian CEO, founded CloudFactory after never leaving Nepal from a two week vacation that started 4 years ago.
- Processing tens of thousands of tasks per day