Iba Masood

We're looking at platforms that have, you know, a larger base of contractors specifically, as well as, you know, with,

I don't think TopTal is going to give us access to their talent.

What we're doing today is that we're offering talent more opportunities to make money because we have TopTal developers on our platform too.

It's not like every developer just joins one platform.

They usually join multiple.

I think the time will really tell because the main thing is that with the machine learning component, what we've seen is the reason why developers like using Tara is because they don't have to do the scoping part.

On TopTel and all these other platforms, you as a developer have to sit down, scope out your milestones and tasks, and answer every question that the client has, specifically on the spec side.

With Tara, the entire process is being managed through our platform.

So I think that's what really excites us, where developers can spend more time coding and less time managing scope.

Yes.

So we just raised a 3 million round for our seed.

So we are at about 12 people today and we didn't launch in 2015.

We started developing the product in 2015 because it takes two to three years just to build out an ML platform.

Our first paying customer came in last year.

So the first two years, what we were, I mean, so we had just graduated out of YC.

We had raised about 400K post YC.

So that was essentially what was keeping us going.

I think that we've just been so focused on mid-market and enterprise.

I think

We just haven't really, I think, given much thought to like specifically focusing on startups just because enterprise and mid-market are a completely different beast.