William Hedberg

Investing in outstanding businesses | Meliora Ventures, backing exceptional early-stage tech startups | Souwester Holdings, acquiring superior Tasmanian SMBs

📍 Australia🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2016
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Board Observer
Aug 2016
Airtasker is one of Australia’s most impactful tech companies. Our mission is to empower people to realise the full value of their skills. Our marketplace creates jobs and earning opportunities for people all over Australia and internationally, leveraging skills that they might not have previously known could provide them an income. After listing on the ASX in 2021, we went global through launching new marketplaces in the US and UK. Heres a snapshot of where we are up to in numbers: - We have created over $2bn worth of job opportunities since we started! - We generated $44.2M of revenue in FY23! - There were over 2,500,000 tasks posted on Airtasker in FY23! - We have over 149,000 active Taskers! - 6,750,000 verified Airtasker user reviews as of 2023! At Airtasker, we have five values that drive our actions, thoughts and goals everyday: - Stay Open - People Matter - Fit for Purpose - When it’s On, it’s On - Own It At Airtasker we believe in culture add - that each person is different and has their own background, learnings and unique experiences that can add to the Airtasker cultural tapestry. We pride ourselves on our inclusive culture, and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Benefits include: - Competitive compensation packages - Quarterly recharge days - Agile and innovative ways of working - Flexible, hybrid workplace environment - Learning and development - Progressive parental leave policies - Access to wellbeing support - Airtasker credits - Regular connection and celebration events - Dog friendly office So come be a part of our journey and check out our live roles - https://www.airtasker.com/careers/
Board Observer
Jun 2015
Healthengine is on a mission to transform humanitys health, one care experience at a time. As Australia’s largest online consumer healthcare platform, Healthengine helps people navigate the complex world of healthcare. The Healthengine platform brings together a leading range of healthcare practices, healthcare specialties and health ecosystem partners in a suite of integrated offerings to help people get a better experience across each step of their healthcare journey. Founded in 2006, Healthengine now has more than 3.9m users connecting with over 7,400 Australian healthcare providers across GPs, dentists, allied health practitioners, medical specialists, pharmacies, government and hospital organisations, establishing itself not only as a leading Australian online consumer health company but also a cloud-based healthcare provider software vendor. Healthengine helps people find the right care, connect with healthcare providers and manage healthcare all in one place, via healthengine.com.au or the Healthengine app for Android and iOS, with the objective of making healthcare more affordable, convenient and certain.
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2025
Venture Capital
Nov 2025
The Meliora Company delivers strategy and product development, drawing on our start-up investments and rising creative talent to drive growth. We help organisations deliver real CX transformation - not just vision statements - by combining human insight, AI, and world-class execution. Our team brings deep experience across Telecommunications, Media and Technology. We know what it takes to go from idea to insight to impact, because we’ve done it before. Now, we’re helping others do the same.
2024
Partner
Jan 2024
We believe Tasmania represents a unique hunting ground for investment as home for several high-quality businesses. Overcoming Tassie-specific challenges – primarily core expertise & access to capital – we enable business to unlock their next stage of growth & development. Leveraging collective expertise, extensive networks & alternate funding, we aim to deliver sustainable long-term value for our partners, investors & stakeholders.
2016
Board Observer
Aug 2016
Airtasker is one of Australia’s most impactful tech companies. Our mission is to empower people to realise the full value of their skills. Our marketplace creates jobs and earning opportunities for people all over Australia and internationally, leveraging skills that they might not have previously known could provide them an income. After listing on the ASX in 2021, we went global through launching new marketplaces in the US and UK. Heres a snapshot of where we are up to in numbers: - We have created over $2bn worth of job opportunities since we started! - We generated $44.2M of revenue in FY23! - There were over 2,500,000 tasks posted on Airtasker in FY23! - We have over 149,000 active Taskers! - 6,750,000 verified Airtasker user reviews as of 2023! At Airtasker, we have five values that drive our actions, thoughts and goals everyday: - Stay Open - People Matter - Fit for Purpose - When it’s On, it’s On - Own It At Airtasker we believe in culture add - that each person is different and has their own background, learnings and unique experiences that can add to the Airtasker cultural tapestry. We pride ourselves on our inclusive culture, and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Benefits include: - Competitive compensation packages - Quarterly recharge days - Agile and innovative ways of working - Flexible, hybrid workplace environment - Learning and development - Progressive parental leave policies - Access to wellbeing support - Airtasker credits - Regular connection and celebration events - Dog friendly office So come be a part of our journey and check out our live roles - https://www.airtasker.com/careers/
Advisor, Investor, and Investment Committee
Aug 2016
Backing early stage tech startups across Australia and the US.
2015
Board Observer
Jun 2015
Healthengine is on a mission to transform humanitys health, one care experience at a time. As Australia’s largest online consumer healthcare platform, Healthengine helps people navigate the complex world of healthcare. The Healthengine platform brings together a leading range of healthcare practices, healthcare specialties and health ecosystem partners in a suite of integrated offerings to help people get a better experience across each step of their healthcare journey. Founded in 2006, Healthengine now has more than 3.9m users connecting with over 7,400 Australian healthcare providers across GPs, dentists, allied health practitioners, medical specialists, pharmacies, government and hospital organisations, establishing itself not only as a leading Australian online consumer health company but also a cloud-based healthcare provider software vendor. Healthengine helps people find the right care, connect with healthcare providers and manage healthcare all in one place, via healthengine.com.au or the Healthengine app for Android and iOS, with the objective of making healthcare more affordable, convenient and certain.
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