The story
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. Funding for the venture was facilitated by existing relationships with investors, forged by Fung and Lui's shared workplace, the mobile start-up Amaysim. 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.
The company acquired rival company TaskBox for an undisclosed sum in February 2013, and the Melbourne-based Occasional Butler in 2014.
Airtasker partnered with Australian jobs listing website CareerOne in July 2013 which gave the platform further exposure to the casual jobs market. 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.
In 2017, Sydney company Freelancer alleged that Airtasker misappropriated confidential information in the usage of the term "Like a boss" in their advertising campaign. Airtasker lodged an opposition to Freelancer's "Like a boss" trademark, 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.
In December 2018, the Australian Taxation Office audited Airtasker and requested the repayment of Research and Development rebates.
From Wikipedia’s article on Airtasker, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5