# Jon Williams

> Jon Williams is a seed investor at Pyn (Sydney) backing Information Technology and Analytics. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pyn](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pyn)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathannen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jonathannen
- Website: https://x.com/jonathannen

Jon Williams is a seed investor at Pyn in Sydney focused on Information Technology and Analytics. Jon Williams is the founder of Pon and currently serves Exploration Jones as a principal. Prior to this, Jon spent more than eight years with Culture Amp as the founder, advisor, and people geek.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 100% |
| Analytics | 2 | 67% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| UX Design | 1 | 33% |
| Consulting | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 2 | 67% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WhyHive | WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses. | $406.4K | Pre-Seed | Aug 26, 2024 |  |
| Great Question | Great Question is a customer research platform designed to automate research tasks and gain consumer insights. Great Question allows its users to recruit participants, run their preferred methods, and synthesize and share their findings all in one collaborative platform. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| Multitudes | Multitudes is a tool for engineering leaders and teams who care about culture. Multitudes provides insights and recommendations to unlock happier, higher-performing teams. By looking at GitHub data from PRs, reviews, and comments, the tool surfaces insights about the flow of work and blockers to it, collaboration, wellbeing, and more. | $1.4M | Seed | Nov 14, 2020 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Flying Fox Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flying-fox) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FundersClub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundersclub) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [January Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/january-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NOMO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nomo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Skalata](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skalata-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TwentyTwo VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/twentytwo-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pyn

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

Pyn is a human resources company that improves employee communications using marketing techniques, such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering. It specializes in the fields of employee engagement, human, employment, and training. Pyn improves employee communications using marketing techniques such as personalization, scheduling,and automated triggering.Pyn’s employee-centric communication tool cuts through the clutter of messages in order to send only relevant and well-timed messages at key moments.It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

4 contacts available at Pyn.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jon Williams | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-williams-2 |
| Joris Luijke | Cofounder Co CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joris-luijke |
| Sebastian Fröstl | Founding Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-fr%C3%B6stl |
| Tim Cederman-Haysom | Product leader | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tim-cederman-haysom |

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## FAQ

### What does Jon Williams invest in?

Jon Williams invests primarily in Information Technology, Analytics and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jon Williams's check size?

Jon Williams typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$2.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jon Williams participates in.

### When did Jon Williams last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jon Williams closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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