Startup · $5m raised
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Ento raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| AirTree Ventures | Series B | - |
| Perennial Value Management | Series B | - |
The transaction that ended Ento's run as a startup, per published coverage. It closes the funding history too, where it is the ladder's last rung.
| Bought by | Kind | Announced | Price | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humanforce | Acquisition | Sep 2022 | - | Startup Daily (Thu 9 Feb 2023), Techboard, Startup Daily (Mon 3 Oct 2022) |
Companies Ento acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Aulay Macaulay | Founder and Chief | SmartCompany, Startup Daily |
Stories naming Ento. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Blackbird interviews Blinq growth operations manager Travis James about his path from Apple and Uber to an early-stage Melbourne startup, including his time at Ento before its acquisition.
Sydney workforce-management firm Humanforce has bought Brisbane HR software company intelliHR for $77 million, its third acquisition since private equity firm Accel-KKR invested in 2022.
Humanforce has bought Wagestream's Australian arm, formerly Earnd, for an undisclosed sum. The article recalls Earnd's 2019 raise, its sale to Greensill, rescue by Wagestream, an A$81m Series C, and Humanforce's earlier acquisitions.
Techboard's September 2022 roundup reports Australian raises led by Morse Micro's $140m Series B, several acquisitions including ResApp Health to Pfizer, fund closes by Telstra Ventures, OIF and Main Sequence, and open raises.
Ignition Lane's weekly tech roundup covering fresh Australian startup raises, new venture funds and closes, a wave of acquisitions, delistings and a liquidation, executive moves, and Canva's product launch.
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Weekly funding wrap covering several raises including Honey Insurance's record seed round, OCR Labs' Series A, and Ena Respiratory's COVID-19 nasal spray funding, plus Investible's second fund first close.
Melbourne workforce management firm Ento raised a $5 million Series B led by Perennial Value Management with AirTree Ventures participating, to grow its team and expand; AirTree had earlier backed a $1.2 million raise in 2015.
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