Luke Anear worked for about seven years as a private investigator for insurers. His job was to check workers' compensation claims for fraud, which showed him what happens after a workplace goes wrong.
He then founded SafetyCulture, now based in Sydney. Its first product was iAuditor, an inspection app that lets frontline workers complete checklists, photograph problems and file reports from a phone instead of on paper.
In May 2021 SafetyCulture raised $73 million at a $1.6 billion valuation. Insight Partners and Tiger Global led the round. Index Ventures is also an investor.
Later in 2021 a further A$99 million round led by Insight Partners lifted the valuation to A$2.2 billion. By then the product had grown from a single inspection tool into a wider operations platform for frontline teams.