Startup · $2m raised
Melbourne, VIC
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round WORK180 raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Skip Capital | Accelerator · Seed | - |
| Startmate | Accelerator | - |
Companies WORK180 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Lasry | Chief Marketing Officer | SmartCompany |
| Catherine (Katie) Lio | Chief Operating Officer | SmartCompany |
| Gemma Lloyd | Chief Executive Officer · Founder | Startup Daily (Thu 7 Jul 2022), SmartCompany (Tue 17 Mar 2020), Startup Daily (Thu 1 Aug 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Dec 2018) |
| Valeria Ignatieva | Founder | SmartCompany (Tue 17 Mar 2020), Startup Daily (Thu 1 Aug 2019), SmartCompany (Tue 18 Dec 2018), Startup Daily (Thu 15 Nov 2018) |
Stories naming WORK180. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Alberts' year-in-review post recounts its 140th anniversary, board and staff appointments, follow-on venture investments in three portfolio companies, music education advocacy, a philanthropy strategy review, and reconciliation and gender-lens finance commitments.
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Startmate reflects on a decade of backing founders, profiling breakout alumni across its cohorts and describing how its mentors reinvest in newer startups, alongside its fund model and returns.
Giant Leap's impact newsletter announces its first fund is complete, discusses sleeptech and healthtech credibility, cites Climate Salad's climate report, and notes new programs for Indigenous founders and climate research commercialisation.
Giant Leap's impact newsletter rounds up CO2-eating microbes, precision fermentation, booming health tech funding, a women-in-work survey, its open Analyst role, Glow Capital's launch, Snow Entrepreneurs grants and Investible's climate tech fund.
Comestri, once Fusion Factory, has raised a $15 million Series B led by Moelis Australia; Giant Leap promotes Rachel Yang to partner; plus Musk on SNL, Dogecoin swings and Goldman Sachs bitcoin trading.
WORK180's founders reflect on stepping back as the startup scales, describing their careful recruitment of a chief operating officer and a chief marketing officer while expanding into the UK.
Tech roundup: WeWork pulls its US float, a listed VC writes down its Stackla stake, Investible closes its debut fund, NAB loses its cloud chief, and a payments firm's shares surge.
Jobs platform Work180 raised $2.2 million led by Skip Capital, with Giant Leap and Investible among new backers; co-founder Gemma Lloyd raised while pregnant, with funds earmarked for US expansion and hiring.
StartupSmart profiles ten startups it expects to do well in 2019, reporting funding rounds for Black.ai, Huddle, Manrags, Matrak and Work180, Fleet's earlier Series A, and the Ongs' past sale of Eatibility.
Blackbird's retrospective of its 2018: a third fund launched, new partners and staff hired, Startmate cohorts run, numerous portfolio raises led, Shape Analytics sold, and Shoes of Prey shut down.
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A podcast interview with WORK180's cofounder covering its women-focused jobs board, screening of employers, big-name clients, and two million-dollar raises in 2018 funding expansion into the UK and US.
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