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Startup · $1m raised

WORK180

Melbourne, VIC

Coverage

Stories naming WORK180. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

3 deals

2025 in review: Purpose and partnerships

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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Funding announcement

From 0 to 4.5 billion: how the Startmate pay-it-forward mentorship model built a startup powerhouse

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.

Fund close

Giant Leap's Small Steps: Solving sleep's goldilocks problem with startups

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.

News

Giant Leap’s Small Steps: Meet the microbe converting CO2 into leggings and jet fuel

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.

Fund close $22m

5 things you should know about tech today

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.

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Unnamed stage $2.2m

This female founder told investors she had two important projects underway as she raised $2.2 million

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.

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Insurance, socks and social enterprise: StartupSmart's 10 startups to watch in 2019

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.

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Year in Reflection: 2018

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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