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Simon Quirk

Legal & Compliance Tech | AI | Lawyer

📍 Greater Melbourne Area, Australia🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member and Mentor
Jan 2017
Runway is a regional startup ecosystem aimed at supporting entrepreneurs in their entire startup journey. From coming up with a business idea through to launching and scaling their business. Currently operating in Geelong and Ballarat, the business model is unique in that it offers both learning in startup methodology, and the support of a full ecosystem of partners, mentors, coaches and co-working space. Each of them share their knowledge and advice, provide warm introductions to their network, and facilitate the entrepreneur's journey. Runway believes that no entrepreneur can be successful without the full and holistic support of collaborators. We aim to nurture our founders to their fullest potential and in turn provide innovative business solutions, jobs and growth to each region that we engage with. If you are a startup, an experienced entrepreneur, or a business looking to engage with some of the smartest thinkers in the region, please drop us a line at hello@runwayhq.co
Board Member and Mentor
Jan 2017
Runway is a regional startup ecosystem aimed at supporting entrepreneurs in their entire startup journey. From coming up with a business idea through to launching and scaling their business. Currently operating in Geelong and Ballarat, the business model is unique in that it offers both learning in startup methodology, and the support of a full ecosystem of partners, mentors, coaches and co-working space. Each of them share their knowledge and advice, provide warm introductions to their network, and facilitate the entrepreneur's journey. Runway believes that no entrepreneur can be successful without the full and holistic support of collaborators. We aim to nurture our founders to their fullest potential and in turn provide innovative business solutions, jobs and growth to each region that we engage with. If you are a startup, an experienced entrepreneur, or a business looking to engage with some of the smartest thinkers in the region, please drop us a line at hello@runwayhq.co
Experience · 13 entries
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2023
CEO and Co-Founder (acquired by Legora)
Jun 2023
Empower your legal, risk and compliance teams to stay ahead of regulatory change with ease. Visit our website to learn more and try Graceview for free.
General Counsel and Venture Partner
Feb 2023
R3i Ventures is an innovation advisory delivering Planet43, cutting-edge deeptech accelerators specializing in solving humanitys greatest challenges, creating industry leaders in climate, healthcare, and water.
2021
Co-Founder and CEO
Jul 2021
Argos is a regulatory technology company based in Australia. Our mission is to simplify compliance and regulatory change. Argos regulation tracker makes it easy to track, understand and communicate the impact of regulatory change. Identify opportunities and threats earlier. Argos breach consultation makes it easy to assess beaches. Resolve incidents quickly. Minimise the risk of error. Automatic responses and reports. Visit our website for a free 14-day trial with complimentary training. We partner with the best experts in the industry to provide actionable and valuable insights. By contributing to Argos, experts can generate value from their research and experience. Get in touch to learn more about becoming a contributor.
2018
Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director
Sep 2018
Fourth Line empowers licensees & advisers to build trust and deeper relationships with clients through quality advice. For too long, compliance has been a “one size fits all” backward looking “cop on the beat”. Not engaging with advisers, but rather interrogating past mistakes. Fourth Line sees compliance as an advice enabler. Compliance is a tool for licensees and advisers to collaborate and cooperate, with the express purpose of helping improve the quality of advice to ordinary Australians. The Fourth Line Quality Advice and Risk Management (QARM) system helps Licensees and Advisers identify advice related issues before they become unavoidable problems. By interrogating the advice at the point of creation (before the SOA is presented), issues can be fixed, problems avoided, and breaches averted. This builds trust with clients, enhances the reputation of the advice firm, and avoids costly client remediation programs. Licensees also use Fourth Line for critical “due diligence” programs, reviewing SOAs at scale to ensure any advisers joining the licensee network are of the highest quality, proven by the track record of their advice. Fourth Line complements existing compliance frameworks. It does not replace them. Fourth Line uses algorithmic approaches to simplify the complexity in advice reviews, supported by expert human oversight. This empowers compliance teams to coach and develop strong advice behaviours through data-driven insights at the adviser level, the licensee level, and enables industry benchmark comparisons. Now is the time to reimagine compliance. As the industry moves to a profession, so too compliance must become agile, proactive, and forward looking – mitigating financial risks associated with breach reporting and general licensee obligations for the benefit of all – the licensee, the adviser, and the client.
Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director
Jul 2018
As Australia’s leading online conveyancing service, Settle Easy is rapidly transforming the conveyancing industry through our user-friendly, fully automated conveyancing platform and specialist, customer-focused lawyers and conveyancers.
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