SkillSlate or SkillSlate.com was a

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-based firm that matched individual service providers with customers via the

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. The firm raised $1.1 million in capital in October 2010 with investments from

Canaan Partners Canaan Partners, LLC (Canaan) is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park and New York City. The firm focuses on investing in early stage companies in the technology and h ...

and

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. SkillSlate helped small individual service providers, such as

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s, DJs, handymen,

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s and movers, market themselves on the web. According to a website description, SkillSlate helps the pages of service providers surface more prominently in search engine results. SkillSlate served the

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. Competitors included

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, Geotoko, FoundTown, Closely, Proposable,

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, Flowtown, Buzzuka, Spoke, GoBuzz, Traindom, Hooray,

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, and others, as well as

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in newspapers. According to ''

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'', the idea for the site was conceived by

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ist Barkek Ringwelski while working at Canaan Partners when he found he could not find a cleaning person; he raised $50,000 from family and friends in May 2009 and launched the firm. The company was acquired by TaskRabbit in early 2012.

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SkillSlate website
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