Who is Kalo
Our mission
At Kalo, our mission is to enable any company to turn good ideas great with freelancers. Through our technology and our people, we strive to remove all boundaries that people face today in the workplace to make this happen.
2014
Pete leaves Google and starts Kalo
2017
Kalo raises a total of $25m and launches Kalo Pay
Future
More amazing work created by freelancers
Peter, our Founder & CEO leaves Google and starts Kalo
Kalo was born out of frustration over the way we all work together. As a design lead at Google, Peter wanted to create amazing work and more often than not this meant heavily relying freelancers. Yet this way of working caused him to spend all his time coordinating with no time left to design. Everything from finding freelancers, through to onboarding them, integrating them into his workflow and tools, right through to getting them paid, was painful. So he set out to solve a problem.
The timeline
Peter leaves Google and starts Kalo as a solo founder, joining the Techstars London accelerator program.
Peter raises $500k in seed funding from Mark Evans and Richard Fearn and sets out to build the team.
The Kalo team grows by 3, with a CTO, Head of Sales, and the first engineer.
Peter Thiel invests $1.5m in Kalo backing the future of work and the freelancer economy.
Kalo launches it's first pilot product with 10 customers including design agencies and well known publishers.
Kalo places 3rd in the TechCrunch Disrupt London competition.
Kalo hits 10 people and finishes the year with 60 companies managing 10,000 freelancers through the app.
Kalo finds product market fit and continues to grow 20% MoM and raises $11m Series A from Valar Ventures and Goldcrest Capital.
Kalo brings on Max Levchin as an Investor and opens San Francisco office hiring a team of six.
Opened San Francisco office at 300 California Street with a team of 6 and room for 30.
Kalo launches Kalo Pay with 10 customers.
Kalo raises another $10m in funding and add Max Levchin’s SciFi Ventures to the board of directors.