TradieSpec secures $500,000 in seed funding, after pulling the plug on its raise last year Construction & Engineering Stephanie Palmer-Derrien 25 February 2021 Sydney startup TradieSpec has closed a $500,000 seed round, 12 months after the COVID-19 pandemic put its funding plans on hold.
“It nearly broke us”: Founder pulls the plug on funding round, as reality of COVID-19 sets in Coronavirus Stephanie Palmer-Derrien 24 March 2020 Just a weeks ago, TradieSpec was about to close its first funding round. But as the COVID-19 crisis deepened, these co-founders had a tough call to make.