Flare
About
Take care of your people and business, for free
Flare provides free workplace solutions to Aussie businesses that want to level up their workplace wellness and employee experience programs. Get employee onboarding, benefits and wellness, and financial wellbeing solutions for your workplace, completely free.
- Location
- Sydney
- Website
- Visit website
- Founded
- 2015
- Employees
- 51-100
- Industry
- MarketingTech
- Funding stage
- Series C
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Snapshot of Flare
Making Work Pay Off
Flare is helping businesses simplify HR and boost employee financial wellbeing.
Founded in 2015 by Jan Pacas, Colin Mierowsky, Daniel Cohen, and Saul Kaplan, with James Windon joining in 2017, Flare was created to modernise HR systems while improving financial outcomes for employees.
The platform offers digital onboarding, salary packaging, superannuation management, novated car leasing, and benefits like retail discount, all integrated into existing payroll and HRIS tools.
Why Flare Matters
Reach Used by over 2,500 businesses, Flare supports 1 in 3 Australians starting a new job each year.
Impact Through car leasing and other perks, Flare helps employees save thousands annually on tax and everyday expenses.
Backing After raising $43M across Series B and C, Flare was acquired by MYOB in 2022 and now powers financial wellness tools for their customer base.
Milestones - 2015: Founded - 2018: Raises $21M Series B - 2020: Raises $22M Series C (led by MYOB, with Malcolm Turnbull as advisor) - 2022: Acquired by MYOB, continues as a standalone business - 2024: Supporting 1M+ employees annually
The Vision To create a future where every workplace is a gateway to better financial health. Flare’s platform helps businesses retain talent while enabling employees to take control of their financial wellbeing.
Working with us
Values
Be Kind
We lead with empathy and a desire to understand. We take the time to help our colleagues. We share their wins and support them in their losses. We have each other’s backs.
Do the Right Thing
We put the true interests of our customers before short-term gains. We start with employees. When we improve their lives, their employers win, our partners win, and we win. We never lose sight of our purpose. To build a future where the workplace empowers a better life.
Strive for More
We don’t accept the status quo. We are driven to find a way to do better. When presented with a new opportunity or idea, we start with yes. We build on each other’s ideas to drive innovation. We back ourselves and our teammates, to do more, to take on big challenges, to learn and to grow.