TAIKAI
TAIKAI's goal is to create a talent marketplace to connect creators and companies, by crowdsourcing solutions for their challenges, using hackathons as a tool to find, test, validate new ideas, products and talent globally. Think Tinder for innovation and talent seeking.
TAIKAI's goal is to create a talent marketplace to connect creators and companies, by crowdsourcing solutions for their challenges, using hackathons as a tool to find, test, validate new ideas, products and talent globally. Think Tinder for innovation and talent seeking.
TAIKAI has raised $2.4M across 1 round. Its most recent round was a Seed of $2.4M in Sep 2021. Full funding history, investors, and team are detailed below.
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