Solvate Launches Staffing Engine at DEMO Spring 2010

PALM DESERT, Calif., March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of what Tina Brown has coined the "Gig Economy," Solvate, a startup that connects businesses with talent to work on demand, launches its staffing engine today at DEMO Spring 2010.

"Consulting and on demand work is growing in all kinds of ways - remote and local, from crowdsourcing to Gerson Lerhman Group, using a tidal wave of cloud tools to make it possible," says Michael Paolucci, Solvate co-founder and CEO. "We think establishing trusted relationships in the cloud is paramount to successful project-based work, and that starts by innovating on who we connect to and how."

Solvate's staffing engine matches based on the client's Request for Talent and company profile, Talent's "Iamawhocan" index and domain expertise, and your shared social graph. Requesting Talent is as simple as filling in the blanks: "I need a _____ who can _____."

So a retail business that needs a marketing consultant who can launch a digital TV advertising campaign may find a match in Amanda Sanguinet, a retail marketing strategist and Google and Gap alum who can develop strategic digital marketing initiatives and set up Google TV campaigns.

The match is even better if the client and Amanda know colleagues in common to get the relationship started on the right foot. Launching today, clients can request to prioritize matches in their network, using the LinkedIn API.

"There are plenty of classist labor marketplaces where you can find strangers you can order around to do your grunt work," says Julie Ruvolo, co-founder and COO.

"For sophisticated work, you need professionals at the top of their field – you need to connect to your peers. We're a bit like a business talent agency in that respect, with a roster of highly recommended independent professionals from McKinsey alums to some of Madison Avenue's top creative and marketing talent."

"I've been following Julie Ruvolo ever since she was a freelancer herself at VentureBeat," said Matt Marshall, Executive Producer of DEMO. "I am convinced that we are moving to a labor model that is on demand, and SaaS-powered, with lower overhead and increased mobility, for millions of small businesses like mine, and I think Solvate is taking a promising approach in that direction."

ABOUT SOLVATE:

Solvate  Solvate is a staffing engine that matches companies with Talent to work on demand.  It is our mission to build trusted relationships between business executives and independent professionals. We are backed by DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures.

Clients include Pernod Ricard, Timbuk2, Venturehacks and recently acquired MochiMedia. Solvate eats its own dogfood: their ten employees leverage dozens of Solvate Talent a month on gigs from their website redesign to this press release. Browse featured Talent at Solvate.com/talent.

About DEMO

Produced by the IDG Enterprise events group, the worldwide DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products innovations, which are hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying cutting-edge technologies and helping entrepreneurs secure venture funding and establish critical business.  For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/.

Contact: Julie Ruvolo, [email protected], @jruv, 646-720-7110

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