Startup · $6m raised · Marketing and advertising · Sport and fitness

PickStar

Platform for booking sports stars and celebrities

Investors

Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round PickStar raised.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
Adam Gilchrist	Unnamed stage	-
Judith Griggs	Unnamed stage	-
Mike Jeffries	Unnamed stage	-
RADVentures	Unnamed stage	-
SmartCompany	Accelerator	-
Southern Angels	Unnamed stage	-

On a portfolio page

Investors whose own portfolio pages list PickStar, even though we haven't found any coverage of the round yet.

Investor	Listed on
Eastend Ventures	its portfolio page ↗

What PickStar bought

Companies PickStar acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
PickStar is not recorded as having acquired anything.

People

Name	Role	Sources
James Begley	Founder	SmartCompany (Mon 28 Feb 2022), Women's Agenda, SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021)
Matthew Pavlich	Founder	SmartCompany (Mon 28 Feb 2022), Women's Agenda, SmartCompany (Fri 24 Sep 2021)

Coverage

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

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.

Unnamed stage $5m

Pickstar scores $5 million to go global with talent booking tech

Talent booking platform Pickstar, co-founded by two former AFL players, has raised $5 million from backers including Adam Gilchrist, Mike Jeffries and RADVentures to grow in Australia, the UK and the US.

SmartCompany Mon 28 Feb 2022 PickStar Afterpay Cricket Australia Formula One NFL SmartCompany Xero RADVentures Southern Angels Adam Gilchrist Judith Griggs Mike Jeffries James Begley Matthew Pavlich

Also Startup Daily

2 deals

From traffic management to New York coffee: Nine footy players kicking goals in business

A roundup profiling nine past and present AFL players who founded or run businesses, including PickStar, CitrusAd, Gavl and Bluestone Lane, noting CitrusAd's acquisition by Publicis and earlier raises by PickStar and Gavl.

SmartCompany Fri 24 Sep 2021 PickStar Australian Institute of Machine Learning (AIML)Bastion CitrusAd Publicis realestate.com.au Utilities Traffic Management Brad Moran James Begley Matthew Pavlich Max Gawn Moana Hope

Also SmartCompany

4 deals

WA private funding tanks in September Quarter: Techboard

Techboard's quarterly report shows WA early-stage investment dropping to $79 million, mostly ASX raisings like AusCann's $33 million, with just $1.3 million in private deals including Pickstar and a Shark Tank backing of SpacetoCo.

Startup News (WA) Thu 15 Nov 2018 PickStar QuizJam SpaceToCo Steve Baxter