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Beckor: LifeWorks raised £7 million total before $100M revenue scale

Jack Beckor · How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation · Jul 4, 2021 · at 6:45

Jack Beckor, former CFO of LifeWorks, describes the capital efficiency of the company to Nathan Latka.

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“We raised at the time seven million GBP.”

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LifeWorks raised 7 million GBP in funding.

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Assessment

In a July 4, 2021 podcast interview, then-co-founder Jack Bekhor recalled that the company raised 'seven million GBP' at the time. According to UK market research and equity intelligence database Beauhurst, WorkAngel (which formed the LifeWorks joint venture with Ceridian in March 2016 and renamed to LifeWorks Corporation Ltd in January 2017) raised a tracked total of £7.62 million in equity funding prior to its July 2018 acquisition by Morneau Shepell. Because the spoken figure was an offhand round approximation that landed within roughly 8% of the recorded £7.62 million total, the claim is graded partially true.

WorkAngel announced a $5 million Series A funding round on January 19, 2015.
UK private equity intelligence database Beauhurst tracked a total of £7.62 million in equity funding raised by WorkAngel prior to its exit.
WorkAngel formed a 50/50 joint venture with Ceridian in March 2016 under WorkAngel Organisation Limited, renamed LifeWorks Corporation Ltd in January 2017.

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