Teamed, a London, UK-based startup centered on ‘make money working from home’, has simply introduced a £2.5M Seed spherical. At the side of the funding, CEO Antony Vallee, joined us to replay to our questions concerning the firm, their resolution, the elevate, and future plans.
FinSMEs: Hello Antony, are you able to inform us a bit extra about your self? What’s your background?
Antony: I’m a veteran of the worldwide Automotive and Aerospace industries, the place I’ve been an govt in these verticals for 18 years, residing and dealing on totally different continents.
After some lively angel investments in London, I turned a tech entrepreneur in 2012 and not too long ago efficiently exited my first enterprise.
I come from a modest background in rural France, and I’m from a technology the place one wanted to go to the capital to have a profession. I did simply that and hated it.
I created Teamed to repair this drawback and democratise entry to profession alternatives for everybody, wherever they reside.
FinSMEs: Let’s talk about Teamed. What’s the market drawback you need to resolve? What’s the actual alternative?
Antony: Using employees in different nations is extremely difficult. From organising a authorized entity and procuring native skilled providers, to registering native administrators and opening a enterprise checking account. The complete course of may be each expensive and time-consuming.
Teamed is a worldwide hiring resolution that makes it simple and environment friendly for companies to rent, pay and deal with a distant workforce. At present our absolutely distributed group helps companies rent high expertise throughout 75+ nations, empowering corporations and staff to embrace the advantages and alternatives that include international employment.
FinSMEs: How does it work? What are the principle options?
Antony: At Teamed, we simplify the method of constructing groups – no the place they’re on this planet. By way of our personal authorized entities and international infrastructure, we rise up and handle all HR, Compliance, Payroll, and Tax issues for distant expertise anyplace on this planet.
Combining automation and human experience, we offer staff and employers with the very best expertise.
FinSMEs: What are the options differentiating the product from rivals?
Antony: Teamed is democratising international employment alternatives by making it simpler than ever to rent, pay and absolutely help a worldwide workforce. We’re constructing a market-leading expertise for employers and staff by combining our distinctive expertise with human experience.
• 100% compliant. Rent expertise anyplace on this planet with full compliance assured.
• Velocity: Rent and onboard expertise inside hours, not weeks.
• 100% buyer retention. We’re a service-led resolution you possibly can rely on.
FinSMEs: You simply raised a brand new funding spherical. Please, inform us extra about it.
Antony: Teamed not too long ago closed a seed spherical at £2.5M, led by Blackfinch Group alongside Nexus Investments and 1818 Enterprise Capital, enabling Teamed to additional develop its service-led software program to make international employment simpler for corporations and high expertise.
The funding will empower Teamed to speed up the event of world operations, advance its distinctive expertise, and fund a recruitment drive for senior roles. As well as, it’ll enable Teamed to proceed to ship a finest at school buyer expertise and maintain the corporate on observe to attain a predicted five-fold progress in 2023.
FinSMEs: Are you able to share some numbers and achievements of your corporation?
Antony: Teamed has achieved 30% month-on-month progress and 100% buyer retention with its service-led platform since being based in 2020. By managing human sources, compliance, and payroll, this progress has enabled Teamed to assist extra companies to recruit effectively from nations the place they don’t have a bodily or authorized presence. And in doing so, it permits employers to entry, with out pointless expense or delay, the expertise they want, no matter their geographical location.
FinSMEs: What are your medium-term plans?
Antony: We’re altering the world of labor. Everybody ought to have equal profession alternatives, regardless of the place they reside. That’s why Teamed’s mission is to allow anybody, anyplace, to entry thrilling profession alternatives, addressing the rising demand for distant working.
When it comes to subsequent steps, we sit up for pushing forward with our plans to speed up our progress and start executing our formidable product roadmap to construct a brand new, extra democratic world of labor.
