From New Zealand to Silicon Valley: Projectworks’ journey to global recognition [Video]

Pictured above: Matthew Hayter.

Kiwi start-up Projectworks has wasted no time in building a US presence after its highly successful Series A funding round. It’s a giant leap in a journey to achieving global recognition.

Prior to 2021, when Mark Orttung began searching the globe for a standout professional services automation software platform that would suit his California-based software outsourcing firm, he describes everything they trialled as “disappointing”.

Building their own in-house platform turned out to be a bad idea too.

“You think you’ll save money, but you can end up with a sub-optimal product and waste a lot of money and energy on it,” he says.

Mark was aware there was a large pain-point around professional services automation software back then – not just in the United States but also in the wider global market.

Fortunately, two-and-a-half years ago at an investor conference in Lake Tahoe hosted by US company Bridgewest Group, Mark …