Keeping people safe and building a better workplace are one job.
Keeping people safe and building a better workplace are one job.
Keeping people safe and building a better workplace are one job.
Not two. We’re building the system that runs both, starting with the risk that sits in how work is designed.
ReFresh is a technology company that turns the law protecting people at work into a system an organisation can actually run.
Today that’s the people operating system: one record for the risk in how work is designed, who owns fixing it, and proof it was done. Next, physical safety and workers compensation join the same record.
OUR STORY
We started in awareness. It wasn’t enough.
We started in awareness. It wasn’t enough.
Before ReFresh, Harrison built Really Mental, a mental health media company that reached more than 25 million people. The conversations were real, but workplaces didn’t change, because nothing about how the work was run changed with them.
Before ReFresh, Harrison built Really Mental, a mental health media company that reached more than 25 million people. The conversations were real, but workplaces didn’t change, because nothing about how the work was run changed with them.
So Harrison built the missing piece: a system that makes the risk in how work is designed visible, puts a name and a date against fixing it, and proves it was done.
So Harrison built the missing piece: a system that makes the risk in how work is designed visible, puts a name and a date against fixing it, and proves it was done.
OUR STORY
We started in awareness. It wasn’t enough.
OUR STORY
We started in awareness.
It wasn’t enough.
Before ReFresh, Harrison built Really Mental, a mental health media company that reached more than 25 million people. The conversations were real, but workplaces didn’t change, because nothing about how the work was run changed with them.
So Harrison built the missing piece: a system that makes the risk in how work is designed visible, puts a name and a date against fixing it, and proves it was done.
BEFORE
Really Mental
A mental health media company reaching 25M+ people, working with Amazon, Seven West Media and Sony. Proof that people care, and that caring alone doesn’t change the work.
BEFORE
Really Mental
A mental health media company reaching 25M+ people, working with Amazon, Seven West Media and Sony. Proof that people care, and that caring alone doesn’t change the work.
[YEAR]
ReFresh is founded
Harrison Kennedy and Taylor Laing start building in Sydney: technologists setting out to make the law protecting people at work something a company can run.
[YEAR]
ReFresh is founded
Harrison Kennedy and Taylor Laing start building in Sydney: technologists setting out to make the law protecting people at work something a company can run.
JUN 2025
Antler backs ReFresh
Our first institutional investment, at pre-seed.
JUN 2025
Antler backs ReFresh
Our first institutional investment, at pre-seed.
DEC 2025
Pre-seed closes at $1.6M
A $1.3M round led by Black Nova VC takes the pre-seed to $1.6M.
DEC 2025
Pre-seed closes at $1.6M
A $1.3M round led by Black Nova VC takes the pre-seed to $1.6M.
MAY 2026
Partnering to reach further
A referral partnership with HSI Donesafe brings ReFresh to employers already running WHS on Donesafe.
MAY 2026
Partnering to reach further
A referral partnership with HSI Donesafe brings ReFresh to employers already running WHS on Donesafe.
[MONTH] 2026
First enterprise customers go live
Organisations across [x] sectors move their psychosocial risk onto one record. Confirm wording and customers named.
[MONTH] 2026
First enterprise customers go live
Organisations across [x] sectors move their psychosocial risk onto one record. Confirm wording and customers named.
SEP 2026
$2.5M seed round
Led by Black Nova VC, with Antler and Archangel VC, to take ReFresh across the whole duty of care.
SEP 2026
$2.5M seed round
Led by Black Nova VC, with Antler and Archangel VC, to take ReFresh across the whole duty of care.
2027
One system for the duty of care
Physical safety and workers compensation join the same record, to the same evidence standard.
2027
One system for the duty of care
Physical safety and workers compensation join the same record, to the same evidence standard.
BEFORE
Really Mental
[YEAR]
ReFresh is founded
JUN 2025
Antler backs ReFresh
DEC 2025
Pre-seed closes at $1.6M
MAY 2026
Partnering to reach further
[MONTH] 2026
First enterprise customers go live
SEP 2026
$2.5M seed round
2027
One system for the duty of care
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
We didn’t set out to build another safety tool. We set out to make the way work is designed safe for the people doing it, and to give the people responsible for them their time back.
That’s bigger than any one team, so we build it with psychologists, safety professionals, lawyers and the customers who run ReFresh every day.
Harrison Kennedy
Founder, ReFresh
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
We didn’t set out to build another safety tool. We set out to make the way work is designed safe for the people doing it, and to give the people responsible for them their time back.
That’s bigger than any one team, so we build it with psychologists, safety professionals, lawyers and the customers who run ReFresh every day.
Harrison Kennedy
Founder, ReFresh
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
We didn’t set out to build another safety tool. We set out to make the way work is designed safe for the people doing it, and to give the people responsible for them their time back.
That’s bigger than any one team, so we build it with psychologists, safety professionals, lawyers and the customers who run ReFresh every day.
Harrison Kennedy
Founder, ReFresh
CAREERS
Help us build the next duty of care.
Help us build the next duty of care.
Help us build the next duty of care.
Small team, big remit, and work that changes how people are treated at work.
ADVISORS
Advised by people who know the work.
Advised by people who know the work.
Advised by people who know the work.
Three advisors who test our thinking on the science, the law and how the business grows.
Janey Martino
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Janey Martino
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Janey Martino
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Dr Glenn Fox
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Dr Glenn Fox
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Dr Glenn Fox
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Matt Browne
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Matt Browne
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Matt Browne
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BACKED BY
$4.1M raised across pre-seed and seed.
$4.1M raised across pre-seed and seed.
$4.1M raised across pre-seed and seed.
Black Nova VC
Pre-seed and seed
LEAD INVESTOR
Antler
Pre-seed and seed
INVESTOR
Archangel VC
Seed
INVESTOR