Airtasker co-founder

Jonathan Lui's role at Airtasker

He co-founded Airtasker with Tim Fung in 2012.

Jonathan Lui co-founded Airtasker with Tim Fung. The idea came in 2011 while the two were moving apartments. They saw that small jobs around a move could be sold to strangers.

Airtasker launched in 2012 with A$1.5 million of seed money from investors they knew through amaysim. Early on the founders did tasks themselves, once delivering fried chicken at 2am because no one else was on the platform yet.

The company bought TaskBox in 2013 and Occasional Butler in 2014. It raised A$2 million in November 2013, A$6.5 million in 2015, A$22 million from Seven West Media in 2016 and A$33 million in 2017 for expansion into the UK. That made about A$65 million raised privately by October 2017.

Airtasker joined the ASX on 23 March 2021 at A$0.65 a share. In the 2026 financial year it recorded gross marketplace value of about A$240 million, a record.

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How did Jonathan Lui start Airtasker?

Jonathan Lui co-founded Airtasker with Tim Fung. The idea came in 2011 as the two moved apartments and saw that chores around a move could be sold as small jobs. The company launched in 2012.

What is Jonathan Lui's role at Airtasker?

Lui is a co-founder of Airtasker. Fung became chief executive. In the early days the founders did tasks themselves, once delivering fried chicken to a doorstep at 2am.

When did Airtasker join the ASX?

Airtasker joined the ASX on 23 March 2021 at A$0.65 a share under the code ART. Before that it raised about A$65 million privately by October 2017.