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Cad Crowd is a global crowdsourced freelancer marketplace that brings freelance drafters, designers and engineers together. In addition, the website has a catalog of thousands of 3D designs that are available for free download. The company was started in Calgary by MacKenzie Brown and Mikeal Abramoff in 2010. The company now has offices in San Francisco and is headquartered in Glendale, California.

Similar to other services, clients can post jobs and hire  top-rated designers, patent attorneys and manufacturing firms. Originally job posters created contests in which applicants submitted designs and the client would choose the best design. Since they have integrated additional traditional workflow options like fixed rate pricing and hourly rates.

During the COVID-19 2020 pandemic, Cad Crowd held a global design competition for items that contribute to a hands free workplace in which product designs were submitted and made free to the public to produce on their own 3D printing devices.

The company is listed as producer of the 24 min short film The Canadian Carver which won Best Student Fiction film at the Montreal World Film Festival and received honorable mentions at Los Angeles Cinefest,and the LA Underground Film Forum.

See also:

 * 99Designs
 * Fiverr
 * Freelancer.com

Further reading:

 * Kusumah, I., Rohleder, C. and Salinesi, C., 2021, July. InnoCrowd, An AI Based Optimization of a Crowdsourced Product Development. In IFIP International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management (pp. 267-278). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
 * Nambisan, S., Siegel, D. and Kenney, M., 2018. On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12(3), pp.354-368.

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Category:Freelance marketplace websites