 In 2009, the company provided work for refugees in Kenya who completed microtasks; iPhone users donated their time by checking for accuracy through the app Give Work.After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, CrowdFlower again worked with Samasource to help Haitians find work through the application GiveWork.In 2009, the company had raised a total of $1.2 million in seed funding from investors Dave McClure, co-founder of Cloudera Jeff Hammerbacher, and FF Angel.