Culture Amp Pty Ltd

Is Culture Amp publicly traded?

No. Culture Amp Pty Ltd is a private, venture capital backed company. It has raised approximately $300 million from investors including Blackbird Ventures, Index Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. An IPO has been discussed but no listing date has been set.

Who founded Culture Amp?

Didier Elzinga, Rod Hamilton, Jon Williams, and Doug English founded the company in Melbourne in 2009. Elzinga, formerly chief executive of visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures, remains CEO today.

Where is Culture Amp headquartered?

Culture Amp is headquartered in Richmond, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It maintains offices and remote staff in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand.

What is Culture Amp worth?

Its last priced round, a $100 million Series F in July 2021, valued the company at approximately $1.5 billion. In November 2026 the company cut the internal price of its ordinary shares by 46 percent, implying a substantially lower current valuation on secondary markets.

What does Culture Amp do?

It sells subscription software that measures and manages employee engagement, performance, and development. More than 6,000 organizations use the platform to run surveys and act on workforce feedback.

Culture Amp was founded in Melbourne in 2009 by four co-founders. Didier Elzinga, previously chief executive of visual effects studio Rising Sun Pictures, became CEO. Rod Hamilton, Jon Williams, and Doug English rounded out the founding team. The founders' premise was that companies managed customer feedback far more rigorously than employee feedback, and that a dedicated platform could close that gap.

The product launched as a survey tool focused on employee engagement. Early traction came from technology companies that treated culture measurement as a management input rather than an HR formality. Australian customer loyalty platform Customers.io peers and US startups adopted the tool, and the company opened a San Francisco presence early to chase the American market.

Funding arrived in stages. A Series A closed in 2015, followed by a Series B in 2016 and a Series C of $20 million in 2017 led by Felicis Ventures. Blackbird Ventures, an early backer, continued to invest through every round. A $40 million Series D landed in 2018, and an $81 million Series E followed in September 2019, taking total funding past $150 million.

The product widened during this period. The company added performance management and employee development modules, repositioning from a survey vendor to a full employee experience platform. It acquired Zugata, a Palo Alto performance feedback startup, and later purchased Serbian people analytics firm Orgnostic to strengthen its data capabilities.

In July 2021 Culture Amp raised a $100 million Series F led by existing investors including TDM Growth Partners, at a valuation reported at approximately $1.5 billion. The round made it one of Australia's most valuable private technology companies and briefly put an IPO on the expected path.

The IPO window shut soon after. Software valuations contracted sharply from 2022 onward, and Culture Amp reduced headcount across 2023 and 2024 as growth slowed. In November 2026 the company cut the internal share price used to value staff options by 46 percent, citing the broad decline in listed software stocks. Revenue for fiscal 2026 still grew 7 percent to approximately $189 million.

As a software company, Culture Amp's direct environmental footprint is limited to offices and cloud computing. Its ethical profile centers on product use: the platform handles sensitive employee data for thousands of companies, making data privacy and survey anonymity central obligations. The company publishes its approach to data security and anonymity and holds standard SaaS compliance certifications including SOC 2. It is not a certified B Corporation.