CEO · Founder, Soho · angel in 1 deal

Jonathan Lui

Roles

Role	Organisation	Sources
CEO · Founder	Soho	SmartCompany, Startup Daily
Founder	Airtasker	This Week in Australian Startups, SmartCompany (Fri 1 Dec 2023), Startup Daily (Mon 27 Nov 2023), Startup Daily (Fri 2 Jun 2023), Startup Daily (Sat 12 Mar 2022), Startup Daily (Mon 7 Mar 2022), SmartCompany (Fri 9 Apr 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 10 Feb 2021), SmartCompany (Wed 16 Dec 2020)

Disclosed deals

Every published round Jonathan Lui took part in, and every parcel of existing shares it bought off another holder. Deals we hold but haven't published yet are not counted.

Company	Stage	Announced	Amount	Role	Alongside	Sources
Cake Equity	Seed	15 Mar 2022	$2.2m	Participant	LAUNCH TheSyndicate.com Rampersand Guy Pearson Jason Calacanis	Australian FinTech, Startup Daily

Portfolio

Companies Jonathan Lui has backed in a published round, and companies whose existing shares it bought off another holder.

Company	What it does	First invested	Rounds	Led
Cake Equity		15 Mar 2022, Seed	1	0

Funds

Fund closes reported for Jonathan Lui, as distinct from the investments it has made.

Fund	Announced	Committed	Target	Close	Sources
No fund closes recorded for Jonathan Lui yet.

Portfolio companies acquired

Companies Jonathan Lui has backed that another company then bought. An exit for the holding, not a deal Jonathan Lui did.

Company	Bought by	Kind	Announced	Price
No portfolio company of Jonathan Lui is recorded as having been acquired.

Coverage

Stories naming Jonathan Lui. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

15 deals

🇦🇺 This Week in Australian Startups #179, 26th September 2026

Weekly roundup recording a dozen raises and acquisitions, Firmus's scheduled float, a new $50m venture fund, a founder share sale, grant winners, an accelerator intake, and an AI agent's government breach.

This Week in Australian Startups Sat 26 Sep 2026 Amber Electric Auric CodeBreakers Fever Heidi Health HEO Hubblenetwork Kinoxis Therapeutics Medcast OpenDebt Remagine Labs RentBetter Significant Capital Ventures TasTest Zeligate Advanced Navigation Afterpay Airtasker AirTrunk Airwallex Anthropic AUSTRAC Australian Government Australian Signals Directorate Catch CDC Centre Droneshield Elixinol Wellness Ellerston Capital Employment Hero Firmus Technologies Genetic Signatures Innovaero Investment NSW Kongsberg Luxury Escapes Medicare Microba Life Sciences Morgan Stanley National Transport Solutions Nearmap News Corp NSW Government Ofload OpenAI ParaScript Ramp South Australian Government Spark Capital Stakk Limited Telix Pharmaceuticals Telstra The U Group The University of Sydney Thoma Bravo University of Canberra University of Newcastle UNSW Sydney Victorian Government Vitable 1GT AirTree Ventures Angel Investors Antler Australia Athletic Ventures Avicella Capital Baillie Gifford Beaten Zone Venture Partners Best Practice Blackbird Ventures Carthona Capital CSIRO DCode Capital Deepwater Dumm Capital E.ON EQT ETF Partners EVP General Catalyst Headline Innovation Victoria Main Sequence Ventures Medical Research Future Fund Monash University NRF Corporation Paspalis Phoenix Court Point72 Salus Ventures Scalare Partners Stoic Venture Capital Ten13 Uniseed UniSuper Greg Boorer Pat Cummins Sam Kerr Albanese Anoulack Chanthivong Gabby Leibovich Hezi Leibovich Jack Zhang Jonathan Lui

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15 deals

Eleven Aussie startups that raised $61.5 million this week

Weekly roundup of funding rounds at eleven Australian startups, including a $28 million Series B, a $14 million raise paired with an acquisition, and a neural-implant company appointing a new chief executive.

Also Startup Daily·SmartCompany·Startup Daily

Unnamed stage $750k

Airtasker cofounder Jonathan Lui's proptech app, Soho, banks $750,000 to hit $20 million valuation

Soho, the property search app cofounded by Airtasker's Jonathan Lui, has secured $750,000 from Singapore VC Feedback Ventures in a pre-Series B round valuing it above $20 million.

Startup Daily Mon 27 Nov 2023 Soho Airtasker Feedback Ventures Jonathan Lui

Also SmartCompany

Exit / M&A

Veteran tech director Cass O’Connor to chair Airtasker as investor James Spenceley steps down to focus on humanitarian work

Airtasker names Cass O’Connor as its next chair while James Spenceley departs the board after eight years to devote himself to Ukrainian relief efforts.

Startup Daily Fri 2 Jun 2023 Airtasker Aus Ukraine Aid :Different Kogan.com NextEd North Sydney Council Oneflare OzeMail Prime Media Group Swoop Tribe Vocus Cass O'Connor Cass O’Connor James Spenceley Jonathan Lui Tim Fung

Seed $3m

Startup stakeholder management platform Cake Equity raises $3 million seed round

Gold Coast stakeholder management startup Cake Equity has raised a $3 million seed round co-led by Jason Calacanis and Rampersand, with angels including Airtasker's Jonathan Lui, to support global expansion.

Startup Daily Sat 12 Mar 2022 Cake Equity Airtasker Practice Ignition Who Gives A Crap LAUNCH Rampersand TheSyndicate.com Guy Pearson Jason Calacanis Jonathan Lui Jason Atkins Kim Hansen

Also Australian FinTech

17 deals

Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap: Super-fast unicorn, VC funding boom, put another founder on a Barbie

Ignition Lane's weekly roundup: Zip's deal for Sezzle, Zeller's unicorn raise, several Australian funding rounds, Startmate backing Provvy, a space manufacturing grant, NZVC's first close, and tech's response to Russia.

5 deals

From living room floor to $227 million listing: How Airtasker got to where it is today

A look back at Airtasker's path from its 2012 founding to an imminent ASX float, covering its raises, acquisitions, partnerships and controversies along the way.

SmartCompany Wed 10 Feb 2021 Airtasker CHOICE Ikea Occasional Butler The Good Guys BridgeLane Exto Partners Seven West Media Jonathan Lui Tim Fung

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Funding announcement

Luxury leather goods retailer Mon Purse collapses into liquidation

Handbag customisation startup Mon Purse has entered liquidation and stopped trading, with Wexted Advisors appointed and seeking buyers, while the article recalls the company raising roughly $9 million from backers over six years.

SmartCompany Wed 16 Dec 2020 Airtasker Catch Mon Purse Myer Selfridges Wexted Advisors Andrew McCabe Andrew Shub Gabby Leibovich Jonathan Lui Lana Hopkins

Also Startup Daily

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