Online staffing platform Upwork Inc. (NASDAQ: UPWK) announced a partnering with an MSP for the first time; human cloud firm Business Talent Group teamed up with online education provider General Assembly; and self-driving technology firm Voyage announced a $31 million funding round.

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Upwork

For the first time, online staffing platform Upwork announced a partnership with an MSP. Upwork, the largest B2B online staffing firm, had not worked with MSPs before, but it reported on Thursday that it entered into a relationship to integrate its freelance network with Workforce Logiq. 

This allows both buyers as well as freelance workers to get access to features of both platforms. The integration aims to provide Workforce Logiq clients access to Upwork’s online talent community via Workforce Logiq’s existing supplier workflows.

On the flip side, workers on Upwork will get access to Workforce Logiq’s client network with more than $3 billion in spend.

Business Talent Group

Human cloud firm Business Talent Group announced this month a collaboration with General Assembly, an online education provider.

Under the collaboration, professionals operating through Business Talent Group will have preferential access to General Assembly’s learning and credentialing programs. In turn, General Assembly graduates will get entry to Business Talent Group’s talent pool.

“As clients look to [Business Talent Group] to fill gaps in their teams for the most up-to-date skills in emerging categories, we must continuously add to and diversify our pool with the latest capabilities in data science, digital marketing and transformation, and beyond,” said Jody Greenstone Miller, co-founder and co-CEO of Business Talent Group.

Voyage

Self-driving car technology provider Voyage announced a $31 million series B funding round bringing total funding raised at the company to $52 billion.

It intends to use the funding to prepare its self-driving technology for commercialization, increase its team and expand its fleet of self-driving cars in California and Florida.

Robotics and automation were topics at the Collaboration in the Gig Economy conference this week in San Diego.

Voyage’s $31 million funding round was led by Franklin Templeton with participation from Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land-Rover’s InMotion Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures.