They received seed funding from Greylock Partners, Bloomberg Beta, as well as notable angel investors and founders Naval Ravikant of AngelList, Justin Waldron of Zynga, and Emmett Shear of Twitch, among others.

[2] On December 7, 2015, Gigster announced its $10m Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, which will be used to further build the startup's AI and machine learning technology.

[3] The company announced on August 29, 2017, that they had raised $20 million in investments led by RedPoint Ventures for its Series B funding round, which included existing investor, Andreessen Horowitz and first time tech investor and retired basketball star, Michael Jordan.

[4] On May 26, 2021, Gigster announced that it had been acquired by Ionic Partners, an Austin-based firm that buys and operates enterprise software businesses.

[7][8] On March 26, 2024, Ionic Partners announced Gigster had been sold to cloud optimization services company Virtasant.