# SEEK

> SEEK is a VC fund in North Sydney backing Human Resources and Software. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: North Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seek
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/seekjobs
- Website: http://www.seek.com.au
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/seek

SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for SEEK. Shizune tracks 9 team members at SEEK. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/seek-ltd?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4.6M–$29M |
| Series B | $5.4M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Human Resources | 11 | 24% |
| Software | 8 | 18% |
| Recruiting | 8 | 18% |
| SaaS | 6 | 13% |
| Internet | 6 | 13% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 11 | 24% |
| Series A | 5 | 11% |
| Series B | 5 | 11% |
| Series C | 5 | 11% |
| Seed | 2 | 4% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 7 | 16% |
| United States | 5 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 7% |
| China | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Bassat | Co-founder & CEO | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-bassat |
| Andrew Hatch | DevOps Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-hatch |
| Geoff Roberts | Group Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geoff-roberts |
| Joe Powell | Managing Director SEEK Education | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-powell |
| Michael Ilczynski | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-ilczynski |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Go1 | GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources. | $100M | Series D | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| Talespin | Talespin is building the spatial computing platform to power talent development and skills mobility for the future of work. Founded in 2015, the company leverages its proprietary platform to offer enterprise customers, partners, and individuals an end-to-end solution for creating, distributing, and measuring the impact of immersive learningcontent. Talespin is building a future of work where the distance between learning and execution is collapsed, enabling people to explore unique career paths that meet the needs of both businesses and individuals. | $20M | Series C | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Employment Hero | Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HRprocesses. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees in Australia and beyond, by providing free, easy-to-use HR software that employers love to use, and access to far greater benefits for all employees.Employment Hero was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney New South Wales. | $130.2M | Series F | Feb 16, 2022 |  |
| Revelo | Revelo provides data infrastructure for frontier model AI code generation, including expert annotators, eval frameworks, and reinforcement learning gyms. Its network of 400,000+ vetted software engineers in Latin America powers both AI training data pipelines for code and direct staffing for US tech companies. | $28.2M | Series B | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| MyTutor | MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant. | $19.6M |  | Sep 13, 2021 |  |
| Hireup | Hireup is built to revolutionize the way people with disabilities find, hire and manage support workers by harnessing technology and connecting people with shared interests. | $29.5M | Series A | Aug 15, 2021 |  |
| Expertlead | Expertlead is a HR tech company specialized in the recruitment and technical qualification of IT experts. The company's unique selling proposition is the exceptional combination of technology and community know-how that enables it to find, assess and hire the right IT experts. Technical skills of IT candidates are assessed through a specialpeer-to-peer interview process, where Expertlead uses the collective intelligence of the global tech community to check the quality of applicants across different programming languages. In combination with an innovative recruiting software, Expertlead can offer a holistic solution in tech recruiting.Over the past years, the company has built up a global community of highly qualified tech freelancers in the fields of software development, data science, product/project management, solution architecture and UX/UI design. | $11.3M | Series B | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| Employment Hero | Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HRprocesses. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees in Australia and beyond, by providing free, easy-to-use HR software that employers love to use, and access to far greater benefits for all employees.Employment Hero was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney New South Wales. | $102.7M | Series E | Jul 20, 2021 |  |
| Go1 | GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources. | $200M | Series D | Jul 19, 2021 |  |
| Employment Hero | Employment Hero operates as an online human resource platform for small and medium-sized businesses. Its cloud-based HR platform combines HR software, financial services, scheduling, and payroll tools, as well as employee benefits, providing growing companies with an intuitive, affordable way to manage essential employee information and HRprocesses. The company aims to become the employment platform of choice for employers and employees in Australia and beyond, by providing free, easy-to-use HR software that employers love to use, and access to far greater benefits for all employees.Employment Hero was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Sydney New South Wales. | $35M | Series D | Mar 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Airtree Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airtree-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Seek Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seek-investments) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [OneVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/one-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SEEK invest in?

SEEK invests primarily in Human Resources, Software and Recruiting startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SEEK's check size?

SEEK typically joins rounds of $4.6M–$29M at Series A and $5.4M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SEEK participates in.

### How do I contact SEEK?

Public channels for SEEK include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at SEEK?

The team at SEEK includes Andrew Bassat (Co-founder & CEO), Andrew Hatch (DevOps Manager) and Geoff Roberts (Group Chief Financial Officer), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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