Bark.com is a web-based services marketplace headquartered in
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
that was founded in November 2014 by British entrepreneurs
Andrew Michael and Kai Feller.
Description
Bark.com matches service buyers to suitable service providers. It allows people to book local service professionals.
History
Bark was founded in 2014 and launched in January 2015. It is privately funded by
serial entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
Andrew Michael.
In January 2015, it was announced that Bark had purchased Dublin-based skills marketplace
SkillPages
SkillPages was a social platform for finding skilled people and had over 20 million users on the platform from over 160 countries. The CEO was Laura Shesgreen who was appointed after the company's co-founder and former CEO Iain MacDonald stepped d ...
for an undisclosed sum.
In March 2015, English television presenter
Nick Hewer
Nicholas Radbourn Hewer (born 17 February 1944) is a retired English television presenter, company director (2010) and former public relations consultant. From 2005 to 2014, he appeared as Alan Sugar's adviser in the British television series ...
became Bark's brand ambassador.
As of 2019, the service has 5m users across 5 markets and turned over £20m
In March 2020, the company launched in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
,
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
and
Australia.
References
External links
Official website
Internet properties established in 2012
Online marketplaces of the United Kingdom
Employment social networks
{{company-stub