Bark (company)
| Private | |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
Area served | United Kingdom |
| Owner | Andrew Michael |
Number of employees | 10 |
| Website |
www |
Bark is a web-based services marketplace founded in 2012 by British entrepreneurs Andrew Michael and Kai Feller, and headquartered in London.[1][2] Bark has over 20m users worldwide.[3]
Description
Bark matches service buyers to suitable service providers. Buyers describe the service that they are looking for, and Bark matches them to businesses in their local area who they believe can assist the buyer.[3]
History
Bark was founded in 2012 and launched in April 2014. It is privately funded by serial entrepreneur Andrew Michael, who sold his previous businesses Fasthosts and Livedrive for close to $230m.[4][5][6]
In January 2015, it was announced that Bark had purchased struggling Dublin-based skills marketplace SkillPages from liquidators KPMG for an undisclosed sum after the Irish business accrued €24m in debt.[2] As part of this deal, Bark transferred all of SkillPages' 20m users onto their platform.[1][3][7]
In April 2015, celebrity businessman and former Apprentice star Nick Hewer became Bark's brand ambassador, producing a series of videos for the company.[8][9]
References
- 1 2 "Skills Marketplace Skillpages Acquired By Buyer-Focused Bark.com". MSN. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11.
- 1 2 "Skillpages sold to Bark.com for undisclosed sum". BM Magazine.
- 1 2 3 "Skills Marketplace Skillpages Acquired By Buyer-Focused Bark.com". TechCrunch.
- ↑ "Troubled Local Services Site SkillPages Acquired By Bark". The Next Web.
- ↑ "5 UK Tech CEOs Who Exited Before They Were 30". Digital Business Academy. Archived from the original on 2015-07-13.
- ↑ "AGC Partners Advises Livedrive on its Sale To J2 Global". AGC.
- ↑ "SkillPages Profile". Bloomberg.
- ↑ "Nick Hewer teams up with Bark". Bark Blog.
- ↑ "Bark - The Best Way to Find Local Services". YouTube.