Airtasker
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| Type of business | Public |
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Type of site | Community marketplace |
| Traded as | ASX: ART |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales, |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Area served | Australia, UK, Ireland, Singapore, United States, New Zealand |
| Founder(s) | Tim Fung, Jonathan Lui |
| Chairperson | Cass O'Connor |
| CEO | Tim Fung |
| Net income |  $23,536,669 (FY 2018) |
| Employees | 175 |
| URL | www |
| Users | 2,000,000 |
| Launched | 2012 |
Airtasker is a Sydney-based Australian company which provides an online and mobile marketplace, enabling users to outsource everyday tasks.[1] Users describe the task and indicate a budget; community members then bid to complete the task.[2]
Airtasker was founded in 2012 by Australian entrepreneurs Tim Fung and Jonathan Lui[3] and has raised AUD $65 million, to date, in 2017.[4]
Co-founders Tim Fung and Jonathan Lui devised the Airtasker concept in 2011, when they relocated apartments and realised that many of the related tasks could be outsourced to other people.[5] Funding for the venture was facilitated by existing relationships with investors, forged by Fung and Lui's shared workplace, the mobile start-up Amaysim.[6] The team successfully raised AUD $1.5 million two months after launch and began expanding its offering to cater for businesses as well as individuals.[7]
The company acquired rival company TaskBox for an undisclosed sum in February 2013,[8] and the Melbourne-based Occasional Butler in 2014.[9]
Airtasker partnered with Australian jobs listing website CareerOne in July 2013 which gave the platform further exposure to the casual jobs market.[10] By late 2013 Airtasker had closed a second round of funding raising a further AUD $2 million, bringing total investment in the company to AUD $3.5 million and valuing it at $10 million.[11]
In 2017, Sydney company Freelancer alleged that Airtasker misappropriated confidential information in the usage of the term "Like a boss" in their advertising campaign.[12] Airtasker lodged an opposition to Freelancer's "Like a boss" trademark,[13] which was still in correspondence process with IP Australia in December 2018.
In July 2018, some of Airtasker's Australian data may have been compromised in a Typeform data breach.[14]
In December 2018, the Australian Taxation Office audited Airtasker and requested the repayment of Research and Development rebates.[15]