Richard Durnall

Product & Technology Executive, Investor, Advisor

📍 Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
VC🌍 Australia
10
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8y
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Portfolio

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Investor & Advisor
Mar 2022
PropertyScout, a Thailand based Proptech start up, is an end-to-end real estate transaction platform connecting over 5,500 agents and agencies with buyers, renters and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, its technology platform and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to-place for buying, selling, and renting real-estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
early stageReal Estate
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2022
Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problem with traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond.
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2021
Cookaborough is a one of a kind SaaS platform that makes it easy to set-up, run and grow a ready-made meals business under a batch model. Made for caterers, local food stores, artisan wholesalers, home-cooks and chefs, our platform provides a suite of intelligent, insight-driven features, designed to deliver an end-to-end solution. To better understand our product please watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwoxFnYnjlM Or visit cookaborough.com We are Melbourne-based business with global aspirations to transform food businesses through the power of batch. Please get in touch if you’d like to know more.
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2020
hipages provides a better, smarter way to connect tradies and consumers and get the job done well. We are on a mission to make home improvement effortlessly efficient. Our aim is to create a seamless experience for tradies and homeowners in place of the current unreliable - and unproductive - process that makes it a feat of mutual endurance. We build technology that solves the frictions of an industry ready for optimisation, by redesigning the tradie/client relationship and transforming the way trade businesses operate. To date, over two million Australians have changed the way they find, hire and manage trusted tradies to get a job done around their home. hipages. Change the way you tradie. Our team & culture hipages is powered by great people - if we do say so ourselves. We are an eclectic, bright and curious bunch. We’re tech-heads, thought-leaders and are driven by our passion to make a difference. We’re a group of people who work hard to achieve and play hard to celebrate. From the top down, our office is collaborative, which is reflective in our open plan office and our flat as a pancake structure; everyone is empowered to do great work and do it with pride. We’re down to earth and our energy is second to none. We’re simply a great place to work. Don’t believe us? We won some fancy award that says so - we know, you’re impressed. We’re a medium sized start-up, meaning we’re big enough to have leading edge systems and tools but small enough so everyone is able to make a direct impact. Free from bureaucracy and politics, we make it happen everyday. How? Because we are the hipages team, and that’s what we do. We also love celebrating everything, and we mean everything! Not to mention our company awards and events are legendary. Still not convinced? Check out our Instagram page to get the picture - @hipagesteam. Feel free to start following us too, so you stay up to date. If you want to join our awesome team, check out the jobs currently on offer (we know you want to) - https://hipagesgroup.com.au/
Investor & Board Member
Aug 2020
For too long, people with disability have had to accept support on someone else’s terms. At Hireup we decided to fix that, by investing in technology and our community and bringing together as many Australians as possible to share in our vision. Together we are redefining what it means to be connected. To be supported. To be a community empowered by a system that matches people not just on qualification but on shared interests. We know that finding the right support is about finding the right relationship. The Hireup story starts with Jordan and Laura O’Reilly, who grew up alongside a brother with disability. Managing support workers was part of their family routine. Sometimes the support workers were a great fit but more often than not, they weren’t. While at university, Jordan became a disability support worker and learned that not only was the system broken for people with disability but also for support workers. It was with a deep and personal understanding of the disability support work system and the ways it needed to change that Laura and Jordan decided to create Hireup: Australia’s first online disability support network that puts its users in control. We have a better future in our sights and we’re putting our stamp all over it. One support work relationship at a time. For us, that’s the Hireup story. Visit www.hireup.com.au to find out more.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2020
As the largest pan-European online car market with over 2 million vehicle offers, around 30 million users per month, more than 43,000 car dealer partners and over 800 employees, AutoScout24 offers innovative solutions and empowering services. The companys footprint includes the European core markets of Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, France, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Poland, and Sweden. The AutoScout24 Group offers a wide range of automotive solutions, enabling users to find, finance, buy, subscribe to, lease, and sell both used and new cars. As a comprehensive marketplace for mobility, AutoScout24 makes targeted investments in the growth areas of leasing, car subscriptions, electromobility and online car buying. With AutoScout24 smyle, the marketplace enables its users to buy used cars entirely online and have them delivered right to their doorstep. Fully financed, insured, and registered – ready to drive. Germanys largest marketplace for leasing offers, LeasingMarkt.de, has been part of the AutoScout24 Group since 2020. The B2B auction platform AUTOproff joined the Group in 2022. Collectively, these marketplaces are significantly driving the digitalization of the European car trade. AutoScout24 is committed to making the internet a safer place. We are proud to be one of the founding members of the initiative "Sicherer Autokauf im Internet” (Initiative for Safe Car Purchasing Online).
Investor
Sep 2019
Cognigy is transforming the customer service industry with the most advanced AI Agent platform for enterprise contact centers. Its award-winning solution, Cognigy.AI, empowers enterprises to deliver instant, hyper-personalized, multilingual service on any channel. By integrating Generative and Conversational AI to create Agentic AI, Cognigy delivers AI Agents that redefine customer experiences, drive satisfaction, and support contact center employees in real-time. Built on the world’s leading Conversational AI platform, Cognigy.AI delivers next-gen customer service through solutions like Voice AI Agents, Digital Chat AI Agents, and Agent Copilot. With dozens of pre-trained skills and Agentic AI capabilities, the platform seamlessly integrates into enterprise systems. By leveraging memory and context, Cognigys AI Agents provide hyper-personalized interactions and strengthen customer relationships. Agentic AI also fosters collaboration between AI and human agents, giving them superpowers to deliver exceptional service. Over 1000 brands worldwide trust Cognigy and its vast partner network to create AI customer service agents for their contact center. Cognigys impressive worldwide customer portfolio includes Bosch, Nestlé, DHL, Lufthansa Group, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota.    For more information and to book a demo visit: www.cognigy.com  We are hiring: https://careers.cognigy.com/ Visit our blog: https://www.cognigy.com/blog Meet our customers: https://www.cognigy.com/customer-success-stories https://www.cognigy.com/legal-notice/
Investor
Jul 2019
Meatable is leading the charge in revolutionizing how the meat industry sources and produces meat. We are a partner to the industry and provide the science and technology to sustainably produce affordable, great-tasting, real meat at scale. Meatable’s cultivated meat technology is designed to complement and integrate into the existing traditional meat industry’s supply chains, offering opportunities for partnerships that strengthen the entire system. We accomplish this without harming animals or the planet, 25x times faster than traditional protein. Meatable is positioned to be THE solution for feeding a hungry planet in the future.
early stageFood Production
Investor
Feb 2018
AnyDesk was founded in Germany in 2014. Its unique remote access software has been downloaded by more than 800 million times by users worldwide. The software is based on the company’s unique proprietary codec, DeskRT, that allows for virtually latency-free collaboration whether you’re down the hall or on the other side of the world. AnyDesk is one of the 50 fastest-growing businesses in Germany and its technology is trusted by millions of people and more than 180,000 customers in 190 countries, including world-renowned Fortune 500 brands.
Experience · 12 entries
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Investments (10)
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2024
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2024
Fitness Passport is Australia and New Zealands most loved workplace health, fitness and wellbeing program. We work with businesses that truly care about their people, and together, we deliver wellbeing programs that make a positive impact on the lives of their workforce; wherever they are, whenever they need. We have three main aims: 1. To help more employees and their families lead a healthy and active lifestyle, while also ensuring affordability, convenience, and value. 2. To help more employers deliver a meaningful workplace health and wellbeing program, one that their people will love. 3. To help more health and fitness facilities grow their businesses by being part of our broad network: benefitting from our close partnerships with some of the largest employer workforces across the countries. Join us on our mission!
2022
Investor & Advisor
Mar 2022
PropertyScout, a Thailand based Proptech start up, is an end-to-end real estate transaction platform connecting over 5,500 agents and agencies with buyers, renters and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, its technology platform and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to-place for buying, selling, and renting real-estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
early stageReal Estate
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2022
Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from entire fleets of vehicles to self-employed drivers and riders. It combines best-in-class technology with sophisticated data sources to offer insurance products that save businesses time and money. Since its inception, Zego has believed that the problem with traditional insurance is that it holds businesses back. It’s too expensive and time consuming, and it no longer suits businesses who use vehicles to earn money. Zego’s products represent a solution to this problem for businesses based across the UK, Europe and beyond.
2021
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2021
Cookaborough is a one of a kind SaaS platform that makes it easy to set-up, run and grow a ready-made meals business under a batch model. Made for caterers, local food stores, artisan wholesalers, home-cooks and chefs, our platform provides a suite of intelligent, insight-driven features, designed to deliver an end-to-end solution. To better understand our product please watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwoxFnYnjlM Or visit cookaborough.com We are Melbourne-based business with global aspirations to transform food businesses through the power of batch. Please get in touch if you’d like to know more.
2020
Investor & Advisor
Nov 2020
hipages provides a better, smarter way to connect tradies and consumers and get the job done well. We are on a mission to make home improvement effortlessly efficient. Our aim is to create a seamless experience for tradies and homeowners in place of the current unreliable - and unproductive - process that makes it a feat of mutual endurance. We build technology that solves the frictions of an industry ready for optimisation, by redesigning the tradie/client relationship and transforming the way trade businesses operate. To date, over two million Australians have changed the way they find, hire and manage trusted tradies to get a job done around their home. hipages. Change the way you tradie. Our team & culture hipages is powered by great people - if we do say so ourselves. We are an eclectic, bright and curious bunch. We’re tech-heads, thought-leaders and are driven by our passion to make a difference. We’re a group of people who work hard to achieve and play hard to celebrate. From the top down, our office is collaborative, which is reflective in our open plan office and our flat as a pancake structure; everyone is empowered to do great work and do it with pride. We’re down to earth and our energy is second to none. We’re simply a great place to work. Don’t believe us? We won some fancy award that says so - we know, you’re impressed. We’re a medium sized start-up, meaning we’re big enough to have leading edge systems and tools but small enough so everyone is able to make a direct impact. Free from bureaucracy and politics, we make it happen everyday. How? Because we are the hipages team, and that’s what we do. We also love celebrating everything, and we mean everything! Not to mention our company awards and events are legendary. Still not convinced? Check out our Instagram page to get the picture - @hipagesteam. Feel free to start following us too, so you stay up to date. If you want to join our awesome team, check out the jobs currently on offer (we know you want to) - https://hipagesgroup.com.au/
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