Exit / M&A
Company
David Jones
Funding history
Investors
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round David Jones raised.
What David Jones bought
Companies David Jones acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
People
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Kate Whitney | General Manager of Marketing (former) | Australian FinTech |
| Sam Richardson | Digital Strategist (former) | Forbes Australia |
Coverage
Stories naming David Jones. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Unnamed stage
$260k
Butter: The anti-establishment app working to get you offline and breaking bread IRL
Forbes Australia profiles Butter, a year-old Melbourne app fighting loneliness through in-person gatherings, now at 10,000 users with $260,000 from backer Antler at a roughly $2.2 million valuation.
2 deals
Sonder raises $40m from Blackbird Ventures, Seek, Hostplus
Sonder, a workplace health and wellbeing provider, closed a 40 million dollar round with Blackbird and Seek leading, Hostplus newly investing, and funds aimed at growth across Australia, New Zealand, Britain and AI features.
Funding announcement
‘When Lachlan calls, you answer’: Inside this Murdoch-backed luggage giant
Profile of luggage brand July, built by Melbourne founders Athan Didaskalou and Richard Li with backing including Lachlan Murdoch, covering its pandemic pivot, Olympic team supply deal and retail expansion.
News
Zero-waste enterprise Circonomy celebrates national expansion and the “gritty, shitty, and unpretty” fight for sustainable consumption
Circonomy, formerly World's Biggest Garage Sale, has opened a Melbourne refurbishment hub and launched a national squad helping corporate clients divert surplus goods from landfill, with new CEO Ryan Swenson appointed from shareholder Officeworks.
Pre-seed
$600k
Business digitisation and consulting startup FORMM raises $600,000 pre-Seed
Digital consulting startup FORMM has raised a $600,000 pre-seed round from individual investors who also take on leadership, board and advisory roles, to help mid-sized businesses digitise.
Also SmartCompany
News
After $10 million in sales, Liquor Loot is using crowdfunding to launch its international expansion
Maker of whisky and gin tasting boxes plans an equity crowdfunding campaign on Birchal to fund Southeast Asian expansion, having earlier taken capital from Koala's co-founders; no money has been raised yet.
Key hire
Marley Spoon CMO Kate Whitney joins fintech Wisr Board
Wisr has appointed Marley Spoon marketing chief Kate Whitney as a non-executive director from April 2022, following Cathryn Lyall's January appointment and lifting female board representation to 40%.
2 deals
Personal care company selling in 12 countries | Awarded Australian government grant | $1.5M already raised
Wholesale Investor profiles Dr Mark's HyGenie, an oral hygiene company that has raised $1.5 million in a Series A and received a $1 million Australian government commercialisation grant, and is now offering $5 million.