Careseekers

Careseekers is an online platform directly connecting individuals and families with in-home aged care and disability support workers

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Healthcare Services
  • Location Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Currency AUD
  • Founded October 2015
  • Employees 5
  • Incorporation Type Not Incorporated
  • Website careseekers.com.au

Company Summary

Careseekers is an online platform directly connecting individuals and families with aged care and disability support workers. The platform enables choice and control over care, and work opportunities for care and support workers. Careseekers is an end to end solution - finding, managing and paying workers takes place on the platform. Workers are pre-screened. Careseekers takes a percentage fee on every hour of care delivered.

Team

  • CMO and Co-founder

    Lauren Hockley is a marketeer with extensive online marketing and B2B experience. She has held marketing roles in advertising agencies and start-ups such as Homescreen Entertainment and BRR Media. She was an online marketing manager at the Prince's Charity Business in the Community (London) where she managed the largest online environmental tool for businesses. She has a masters in marketing from the University of Sydney and has taught at RMIT.

  • CEO and co-founder

    Marissa Sandler is a lawyer with 15 years experience working in human rights and disability discrimination. She is a change maker, researcher and public policy maker. She was inspired to set up Careseekers after working at the Intellectual Disability Rights Service. Marissa is a proven leader with experience establishing, fundraising for and running an organisation that mentors women leaving prison.

Previous Investors

  • Artesian Capital Management
    Unconfirmed

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