Guru.com is a freelance marketplace. It allows
companies to find freelance workers for commissioned work. Founded in 1998 in
Pittsburgh as eMoonlighter.com and still headquartered there.
Guru
Inc. was founded in 1999 in San Francisco as an online clearing house
for high tech workers seeking short-term contracts. The company, led by
brothers Jon and James Slavet, raised $3M in angel funding and a further $16M
in a full venture round led by Greylock Partners and August Capital. In
a May 2000 interview, Paul Saffo cited Guru.com as an example of a company
using the Internet to provide new kinds of services where individuals
negotiated directly with potential employer. In 2002, Guru developed the
Smartmatch technology which matches resumes and other information
about job applicant to jobs. It also developed a candidate profiling
system using techniques from Industry and Organization psychology to better
understand a candidate's suitability for a particular job.
The
company was acquired in December 2002 by Unicru a human resources
software company based in Portland, Oregon. Guru's technology and staff
remained with Unicru, focused on software to help large employers assess and
hire job applicants.
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