SafetyCulture
👤 Luke Anear (Ex-PI who ran 2,500 workers'-comp surveillance jobs — watched the same accidents repeat, then built the tool to prevent them.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
Every job site must prove it checked for hazards. SafetyCulture turned that duty into a $1.7B inspection platform.
Will it work? · our read
Domain, then code. The app is copyable; his head start wasn't. A decade of PI surveillance plus a safety-document business gave Anear buyer access and trust before iAuditor shipped.
01How the money moves
WHS/OSHA law: every site must document safety checks
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Free iAuditor app spreads worker-to-worker, team-to-team
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Teams buy seats ($24-29/user/mo) to manage it at scale
02The numbers
$100M+Statedannual revenue, 2021
2021
the sentence on the page
despite a difficult and uncertain 12 months, the business is growing. This year, annual revenue will pass $100 million, Anear tells SmartCompany . Over the next seven to ten years, he expects the…
Company-stated milestones; a 2025 third-party estimate (Latka) puts current ARR lower, near $90M.
Passed $100M revenue in 2021, at breakeven.
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🌐 siteSmartCompany — $99M Series D, revenue passed $100M (2021)Business News Australia — Anear, ex-PI, 2,500 surveillance jobsSafetyCulture pricingLatka — third-party ARR estimate (updated Nov 2025)
Revenue headline ($100M+) is SafetyCulture's own 2021 figure, disclosed at its Series D and reported by SmartCompany — first-party, so verified. A third-party estimate (Latka, updated Nov 2025) puts current ARR at about $90.3M — lower than the 2021 $100M+ headline, likely a different measure (ARR vs total revenue) or an unfiled estimate rather than an actual decline; we did not headline it since it's not company-disclosed. The PI origin, 2,500 surveillance jobs (1997-2004), the safety-document/DVD business, the free iAuditor launch, and the 2M-user / 600M-inspection counts are company- and press-documented [fact]. Calling demand "regulation-forced" is our read [infer]: WHS (Australia) and OSHA (US) legally compel documented safety checks industry-wide, but no statute names this software — a strong tailwind, not a literal purchase mandate. Note SafetyCulture is VC-funded (about $400M+ raised, about $1.7B valuation), not a bootstrapped indie despite the garage start. We never score you.