CloudFactory

San Francisco based cloud labor platform where businesses get instant access to virtual workers for tedious and repetitive tasks.

In Mark Sears, CEO at CloudFactory.com words via Quora:

CloudFactory is a cloud labor platform where businesses get instant access to virtual workers for tedious and repetitive tasks. We help businesses create virtual assembly lines that are staffed by our "cloud workers" from around the world. As a social enterprise we are working to connect 1 million people in the developing world to basic computer work while raising them up as leaders to address poverty in their own communities. 

 So will it disrupt poverty in the developing world? Only time will tell, but we like to think we have all the pieces to be a serious market-based approach to alleviate poverty in many countries. In the mean time we are giving opportunities one by one to talented and motivated cloud workers who are working themselves out of poverty and into a brighter future. At the same time we are providing a great commercial service for data entry/processing to businesses around the world. Sustainable innovation where everyone wins!

The company behind Silicon Valley’s dirty little secret

Andrew Warner from Mixergy did a great interview with Mark Sears (CEO of CloudFactory) titled “The company behind Silicon Valley’s dirty little secret”. I encourage you to watch it.

The Team

CloudFactory has an offshore human labor teams located in:
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Nairobi, Kenya
Working for pennies ($50 USD per month) to extract data from US clients business receipts and bills.

Which companies use CloudFactory?

  • Xero
  • Expensify
  • Bill.com
  • ibotta






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