Participated · Seed · Jan 2023

Gigged.AI offers a Skills Intelligence Platform and On-Demand Talent marketplace that unifies internal employees, contingent workers and AI agents to help enterprise tech leaders match capability to projects. The platform supports integrations with Microsoft Teams, Entra ID, Power BI and other Azure-native tools and is now listed on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to streamline procurement and deployment. The company is close to launching an Agentic AI feature called Sia, a natural-language interface that scopes projects and finds intelligent matches instantly. Gigged.AI says the product improves utilisation and reduces delivery bottlenecks for digital transformation initiatives. The startup currently serves 12 enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 firms Leidos and Concentrix, and reports a strong pipeline in the UK and USA for 2025 and beyond. Leadership cites customer growth and product launches as priorities supported by the new funding. Gigged.AI, based in Glasgow, Scotland, deploys AI-matching algorithms to help businesses source and onboard on-demand tech talent while enabling SMEs and larger corporates to retain existing staff. Led by CEO and co‑founder Rich Wilson, the company serves clients including the BBC, ATOS, Webhelp, Skyscanner, FanDuel, and the University of Edinburgh. In January 2023 it raised £1.6M in seed funding to support growth. The round was led by Par Equity alongside existing investor Techstart Ventures and Nile HQ. Gigged.AI plans to grow its team over the next twelve months, hiring remotely in addition to expanding at its Glasgow and London hubs. It also has a number of partnerships and contract wins in the pipeline this year. Gigged.AI operates an AI-driven platform that matches businesses with internal talent and external freelancers, using an algorithm to pair clients with the most suitable people from a company’s workforce or Gigged.AI’s freelance network. The company plans to re-platform its product and use recent funding to support expansion into North American markets, targeting delivery to an existing pipeline in early 2023. Gigged.AI was awarded a £100,000 grant from Scottish Enterprise to scale development and support that international push. The startup launched an MVP in 2021 and says it quickly found demand from SMEs and larger enterprises seeking internal talent solutions. In October last year the company secured £600k in an oversubscribed funding round led by Techstart Ventures, which fuelled significant expansion and a doubling of headcount. Gigged.AI was founded in 2021 by Rich Wilson and Craig Short and is headquartered in Glasgow. Gigged.AI provides an AI-driven talent platform that uses an online chatbot to create clear statements of work that act as contracts between clients and freelancers. The company was launched in July 2021 by Rich Wilson and Craig Short and is based in Glasgow. It has seven employees and plans to double headcount to 14, focusing hires on sales and customer success. Gigged.AI closed a £600K investment round to support growth and further develop its technology for future product launches. The firm previously received a grant from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund to advance its platform. Management says the product has received strong market response as it targets expansion across the global talent platform industry.