“Can a global freelance marketplace become the full-stack commerce OS for labour, payments, and logistics by combining its own escrow infrastructure with third-party payment rails?”
Founded in 2009 as a freelance job marketplace, Freelancer.com rapidly expanded through acquisitions of rival platforms (GetAFreelancer, Scriptlance, vWorker/RentACoder) to become the world's largest crowdsourcing marketplace by user count. The 2013 ASX IPO positioned it as a public company, and the 2015 acquisition of Escrow.com transformed the group into a payments-enabled labour marketplace, with Escrow.com's secure transaction infrastructure now processing over $7.7B. The partnership with Adyen from 2020 onward extended the payments stack globally, enabling multi-market fee collection and freelancer payouts across 190+ countries.
Freelancer.com processes payments through Adyen.
Freelancer.com uses Adyen for FX and cross-border payouts.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Freelancer.com's stack: Payments / PSP (Adyen); FX & payouts (Adyen).
Freelancer.com was founded by Matt Barrie and is founded in 2009, headquartered in Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Freelancer.com has raised ~$15M AUD (IPO, 2013) in total (latest round: IPO on ASX (ASX:FLN), November 2013; valuation: ~$218M AUD at IPO (2013)).
Freelancer.com's acquisitions include Loadshift (2017), Escrow.com (2015), Scriptlance.com (2012), vWorker / Rent-A-Coder (2012), LimeExchange (2010), Freelancer.co.uk (2010) and GetAFreelancer.com (2009).
Get a read on where your own stack stands against Freelancer.com and the rest of its category — what they built versus bought, which providers they use, and where the gaps in your own strategy and competitive set actually are.