Paris\/Berlin \u2014 Euro\u00adpe\u2019s biggest free\u00adlan\u00adcer market\u00adplace Malt, has acqui\u00adred COMATCH, the cura\u00adted market\u00adplace for inde\u00adpen\u00addent manage\u00adment consul\u00adtants and indus\u00adtry experts, to rein\u00adforce its Euro\u00adpean leader\u00adship on the free\u00adlan\u00adcing market. The acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion extends Malt\u2019s commu\u00adnity of high-skil\u00adled free\u00adlan\u00adcers to busi\u00adness consul\u00adtants and takes Malt closer to reaching \u20ac1bn busi\u00adness volume by 2024. With a free\u00adlan\u00adcing market valued at \u20ac355bn, Malt projects to become the undis\u00adpu\u00adted leader and the prefer\u00adred part\u00adner for compa\u00adnies seeking exter\u00adnal resour\u00adces in Europe.<\/p>\n
Foun\u00added in 2014 by McKin\u00adsey alumni Dr. Chris\u00adtoph Hardt and Dr. Jan Sch\u00e4ch\u00adtele and backed by Acton Capi\u00adtal since 2016, Comatch has estab\u00adlished Euro\u00adpe\u2019s leading market\u00adplace for top free\u00adlance manage\u00adment consul\u00adtants and indus\u00adtry experts with clients ranging from start\u00adups to large corpo\u00adra\u00adtes. Since its launch, Comatch has built a strong commu\u00adnity of more than 15,000 top inde\u00adpen\u00addent manage\u00adment consul\u00adtants and indus\u00adtry experts and has grown across nine markets with 130 full-time employees in Berlin, Paris and London.<\/p>\n
Home to a commu\u00adnity of 340,000 free\u00adlan\u00adcers, the largest in Europe, Malt will now be on its way to offer Euro\u00adpe\u2019s most compre\u00adhen\u00adsive network of high-skil\u00adled free\u00adlan\u00adcers and manage\u00adment consul\u00adtants, making Malt the ideal part\u00adner for all busi\u00adness acti\u00advi\u00adties. As a result, clients will now bene\u00adfit from a market\u00adplace with the best subject-matter specia\u00adlists on hand to solve busi\u00adness chal\u00adlenges from stra\u00adtegy to execu\u00adtion. Combi\u00adned, the two compa\u00adnies work with 80% of the CAC-40 and DAX-40 compa\u00adnies and toge\u00adther will build the largest Euro\u00adpean client network with more than 1,000 enterprises.<\/p>\n
Fueled by digi\u00adtal trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion and the incre\u00adasing need to fill speci\u00adfic roles, both compa\u00adnies have witnessed a sharp uptake in client demand for inde\u00adpen\u00addent resour\u00adces. The acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion sends a strong signal of Malt\u2019s place in the ecosys\u00adtem at a time of tremen\u00addous growth in the Euro\u00adpean free\u00adlance market, curr\u00adently valued at 355 billion euros.<\/p>\n
United over a shared vision of the future of work, one in which ever\u00adyone has the power to choose how and whom they work with, Malt and Comatch will focus their efforts on market-facing syner\u00adgies to broa\u00adden the offe\u00adrings for their clients and their commu\u00adnity of highly-skil\u00adled free\u00adlan\u00adcers. The growth of the combi\u00adned company will be supported by the hiring of 150 new employees, brin\u00adging the total count to 600 by the end of 2022. The exten\u00adsion of services also means that dedi\u00adca\u00adted teams will now work across eleven regi\u00adons and count\u00adries, inclu\u00adding Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Middle East and North Africa, the Nether\u00adlands, Nordics, Spain, Switz\u00ader\u00adland and the UK.<\/p>\n
Vincent Huguet, Malt CEO<\/strong>Comatch is a cham\u00adpion in the field of busi\u00adness consul\u00adting market\u00adplaces. As a fellow company that shares Malt\u2019s \u201ccommu\u00adnity first\u201d approach, placing our talents at the core of the product and busi\u00adness to our vision for the future of work, we are eager and exci\u00adted to bring our two worlds of high-skil\u00adled free\u00adlan\u00adcers together.\u201d<\/p>\n Chris\u00adtoph Hardt, Comatch Co-Foun\u00adder and Mana\u00adging Direc\u00adtor: \u201cWe believe in a future where tech\u00adno\u00adlogy and busi\u00adness consul\u00adting conti\u00adnue to grow closer toge\u00adther. Malt is Euro\u00adpe\u2019s leading market\u00adplace espe\u00adci\u00adally for digi\u00adtal free\u00adlance talents while Comatch is the largest Euro\u00adpean consul\u00adting market\u00adplace. We are very exci\u00adted to jointly build Euro\u00adpe\u2019s undis\u00adpu\u00adted leading market\u00adplace where orga\u00adniza\u00adti\u00adons can find the best inde\u00adpen\u00addent profes\u00adsio\u00adnals for any possi\u00adble project.\u201d<\/p>\n About Malt<\/strong> About COMATCH<\/strong> About Acton Capital<\/strong> Paris\/Berlin \u2014 Euro\u00adpe\u2019s biggest free\u00adlan\u00adcer market\u00adplace Malt, has acqui\u00adred COMATCH, the cura\u00adted market\u00adplace for inde\u00adpen\u00addent manage\u00adment consul\u00adtants and indus\u00adtry experts, to rein\u00adforce its Euro\u00adpean leader\u00adship on the free\u00adlan\u00adcing market. The acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion extends Malt\u2019s commu\u00adnity of high-skil\u00ad\u00adled free\u00adlan\u00adcers to busi\u00adness consul\u00adtants and takes Malt closer to reaching \u20ac1bn busi\u00adness volume by 2024. With a free\u00adlan\u00adcing market [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-investors"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFoun\u00added in 2013 by Vincent Huguet (CEO) and Hugo Lassi\u00e8ge (CTO), with Alex\u00adandre Fretti as Mana\u00adging Direc\u00adtor in Paris, Malt is a Euro\u00adpean market\u00adplace where more than 340,000 free\u00adlance consul\u00adtants put their skills and exper\u00adtise at the service of compa\u00adnies looking for exter\u00adnal talents to acce\u00adle\u00adrate their projects. It alre\u00adady has more than 30,000 clients, inclu\u00adding 36 CAC 40 compa\u00adnies. With 300 employees (50% women and men), Malt is present in France, Spain, Belgium, the Nether\u00adlands, and Germany.<\/p>\n
\nComatch is Euro\u00adpe\u2019s leading market\u00adplace for top free\u00adlance manage\u00adment consul\u00adtants and indus\u00adtry experts. Comatch combi\u00adnes perso\u00adnal service and inno\u00adva\u00adtive tech\u00adno\u00adlogy to quickly and flexi\u00adbly find the best experts for allbusi\u00adness chal\u00adlenges. Compa\u00adnies of all sizes and indus\u00adtries \u2014 from start-ups to corpo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons \u2014 use the support ofComatch.com to achieve sustainable project success. The cura\u00adted Comatch network includes more than 15,000consultants from over 120 count\u00adries. Comatch was foun\u00added in 2014 by McKin\u00adsey alumni Dr. Chris\u00adtoph Hardt and Dr. Jan Sch\u00e4ch\u00adtele and employs over 130 people in Berlin, Paris and London.<\/p>\n
\nActon Capi\u00adtal is a leading growth venture capi\u00adtal inves\u00adtor in Europe. Since 1999, the Acton team supports digi\u00adtal start\u00adups in the fields of B2B\/SaaS, Health\u00adCare, FinTech or Future of Work on their way to market leader\u00adship. Acton Capi\u00adtal invests world\u00adwide with strong focus on Europe and North America. With two deca\u00addes of invest\u00adment expe\u00adri\u00adence and a deep under\u00adstan\u00adding of tech-enab\u00adled models, the team has inves\u00adted over EUR 700 million across five fund gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons in +100 compa\u00adnies, inclu\u00adding unicorns like Alpha\u00adSights, Clio, Etsy, Home\u00adToGo or Mambu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"