Sydney-based disability services platform Hireup bags $40 million in funding from SEEK
Summary
Founded in 2015, Hireup is an online platform that gives about 10,000 Australians with disabilities each year the power to hire and manage their own support workers. The platform stands out from other service-based sites because it directly employs the workers listed on the website, rather than considering them contractors. “Growing up with Shane, we got to see some of the challenges in the traditional sector, where often it was very hard to find a support worker who was right for him,” O’Reilly says. A goal of the business is to pioneer a new future for platform-based service providers by building a scalable model that employs all the workers on the platform. “That’s a really important feature of the Hireup model, it’s very different to the Ubers of the world that contract their drivers,” O’Reilly says.