Online Work Platform oDesk Raises $15M From T. Rowe Price, Benchmark

Online work platform oDesk has raised $15 million in Series D funding from T. Rowe Price Associates with participation from Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. This brings oDesk's total funding to $45 million. oDesk offers a ?marketplace for talent? that makes it easy for companies to hire workers online for work that can be done remotely. This work ranges from writing to marketing to data analysis and more. oDesk contractors are currently earning more than $300 million on an annual basis, and contractors worked a record 2.1 million hours last October through the oDesk website. oDesk believes the market will grow to $1 billion by this year.

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