Seven West Media invests in Airtasker as start-up, raises $22m
Australian task outsourcing business Airtasker has raised $22m in a new funding round, with Seven West Media signing on to be a cornerstone investor.
The four-year-old Sydney start-up has sold Seven West a 15% stake and agreed to media support and investment to help drive the growth of the platform, which allows users to post a job they need done with a suggested payment amount.
Seven West Media CEO and managing director, Tim Worner, said: “We are delighted to partner with and support the growth of Airtasker.
We continue to pursue opportunities to build our company through key strategic investments in new disruptive ventures which can scale rapidly with the benefit of the promotional power of our assets.
I think this Airtasker thing will take off. Great concept and definitely the way the world is headed, considering the lack of work for odd jobs and handy-men.
Airtasker is great and is but one option. Then there are the jobs and careers young people will create out of they own childhood passions and past times. Whether it’s Minecraft or duct tape wallets, childhood hobbies that seem like fads, sometimes even totally unproductive, can alternatively be seen as mediums for experiencing a cycle of curiosity: discovering, trying, failing, learning and growing. What about creating a way for kids to explore skills and to understand the ways in which they can be creative through them. It’s not important what the skills are. What’s important is that kids develop the muscle to be fearless learners so that they are never stuck with the skills they have. Only this will prepare them for a world where change is accelerating and depending on a single skill to provide a lifetime career is becoming impossible.