Rachel Carrell - The most heavily backed female founder in the UK

Rachel Carrell is the founder of Koru Kids. 

Rachel has raised £14.1 million, making her the most backed female founder

She talks about how she founded Koru Kids to improve the accessibility to childcare, a system which has not been updated in decades that frankly doesn’t work well for the parents, the child carers themselves and of course the most important people in the equation, the children themselves. 

Having started a family myself in the last couple of years, it is a subject which is very close to my heart, particularly as at the start of the pandemic my wife returned to work in the NHS and I became a stay at home, Dad to our daughter. 

It was brilliant to have Rachel on to talk about all of her ambitions for childcare, how she wants to shake up the career development for childcare workers, and how the best ones can earn £50-£60k.

We also discuss how they are hiring for product, engineering and markeeter roles and how they are trying to re create those ‘word of mouth’ moments in an online world. 

Rachel is a tremendous thinker on hiring processes, so we delve deep into the system that they have developed for that at Koru Kids. 

And finally we touch on how the pandemic will alter the global landscape for talent and how the ‘tyranny of distance’ may not affect New Zealand quite so much in this brave new world. 

We start down under with a young Rachel Carrell selling posies and operating an aluminium smelter. 

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