Both of them insist that the overheating token-offering marketplace is cooling down and that a rationalization has come to token investing.
These sites serve as a way for photographers to build an audience and establish a profile or portfolio, but today stop short of offering commercial marketplaces for photos (though 500px says this is now in the works).
The Trade Desk plays in the ad-tech space, offering a marketplace that allows customers to purchase various types of advertisements to run global campaigns in digital media such as display advertising, social media, and advanced TV.
oDesk has been around for a while, offering a "marketplace for talent" that makes it easy to hire workers remotely.
Longer term, Maker's Row will improve its returns by offering its marketplace out to a number of different verticals.
But Welnys wants to do the heavy lifting for those companies, offering a marketplace for workplace wellness vendors such as yoga and meditation instructors, nutritionists and more.
In addition to providing tools for big data processing in the cloud, Microsoft is also offering a marketplace where people can share applications and APIs they have created.
It allowed the company to aggregate buyers in a cheap way, and then make money by offering a marketplace that made finding benefits plans simple. .
A company offering a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell their unused gift cards, Raise.com, announced this morning it has taken in a sizable $56 million round of Series B funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
Given how fragmented the market for general contractors is, Pro.com has a good chance of establishing itself as a leader in this space, especially given that many of its competitors are solely focused on offering a marketplace.
