Weedle Skills Match to Focus on US

Weedle's Free Skills Matching Service to Focus on Growing US User Base

Dublin-based Weedle, a new free web service that allows individuals to market their skills globally, is to focus on growing its US user base, and it plans to recruit around 50 people as the company scales up over the next three years..

Weedle has recently raised $4 million  in seed capital and is using  it to assemble a team of experienced R&D technologists who are using a combination of Social Media and Symantec Web technologies to develop its advanced Web 2.0 Weedle platform.

Since the beta site became publicly available three months ago, thousands of people globally have signed up with Weedle, hoping to be found by others who need their skills. These include accountants, architects, artists, beauticians, carpenters, copywriters, doctors, photographers, vets and many more.

Weedle CEO Iain Mac Donald said: "14% of our users are from the US and we are seeking to grow this in the next phase. Throughout the US and globally, there is a wealth of highly skilled people with great expertise.

"But despite there being significant demand from people who are looking for these skills, there is currently no free, large scale and simple way of connecting people with skills to those who need them," he added.

Irish Government Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O'Keeffe, said that the  Irish company will  create up to 50 jobs over the next three years. Weedle's shareholders include Irish Government agency Enterprise Ireland.

Minister O'Keeffe commented, "Weedle typifies the strong capacity of indigenous Irish firms to innovate in niche markets with high-potential online platforms that can spur the next generation of global internet brand-leaders.

"Internet giants such as Google, Facebook and eBay have already hubbed in Ireland. Now Weedle, an exciting Irish innovator in the internet sector, is an export-oriented firm which  the Government is keen to support in moving Ireland up the value chain."

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