- Virtual Gurus, a Calgary, Alberta-based talent marketplace that matches businesses with skilled and qualified American and Canadian virtual assistants, raised an additional $1.7M in funding
- Virtual Gurus is receiving more than $980K from Western Economic Diversification’s Business Scale-up and Productivity program
- The company has also secured an additional $700K from its very supportive shareholders
- The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth of their technology solution, and begin work in machine learning
- Virtual Gurus is a talent marketplace that leverages its proprietary technology to match organizations with virtual assistants whether organizations need a dedicated assistant, special project support
- The company also provides askBetty, a live ‘tasks on-demand’ product, which offers administrative tasks
