Unlocking Sweat Equity And How To Make Your First Senior Hires With Seeker

Are you a first-time founder looking to access incredible talent without breaking the bank?

About this event

This is a must-attend event where you'll gain valuable insight into how to leverage sweat equity to help build your early leadership team.

This webinar will cover:

● What is sweat equity and how it works when looking for a co-founder (or senior hire)

● Common mistakes founders make with sweat equity and how to avoid them

● Finding talent yourself: Practical strategies to identify and build your own talent pool

● The rise of Fractional Contractors: Flexible, senior talent to scale faster and smarter

● How Sweqlink & Seeker is challenging the status quo and why we are designed to

support you

Who are Seeker?

Seeker is an innovative recruitment platform built to help early-stage startups and growing companies find high-quality talent more effectively. Rather than relying on traditional job boards or expensive headhunters, Seeker taps into a network of senior professionals who refer outstanding candidates from their own networks.

Where and when is this taking place?

This event is taking place via Zoom on Tuesday 28th October from 12pm - 12:30pm. You can join a Zoom webinar from a desktop or mobile device. It is recommended to download the Zoom app prior to joining the event: https://zoom.us/support/download

Who will be there?

Judy Leung

Founder & CEO of Sweqlink, the sweat equity talent platform that helps early stage founders find work-for-equity talent. Prior to joining Sweqlink's mission in making entrepreneurship more accessible, Judy was a digital marketing and web development specialist with a career spanning over two decades managing technical and creative teams, helping businesses from startups through to FTSE 250 companies. She won the Innovate UK Women In Innovation grant award 2025 and supports early stage founders on the LSE Generate Accelerator Programme and Alliance Manchester Business School Venture Builder Programme.

Richie Wan

Founder & CEO of Seeker, a talent platform that connects founders with curated candidates who have hands-on startup experience, making hiring fast, affordable and reliable. He has 16 years’ global recruitment experience placing C-suite executives across a range of niche sectors in Europe, Middle East and Asia. He specialises in building and executing recruitment strategies for small businesses, providing high level consultancy support to Managing Directors. Seeker recently won IPHatch Asia and is now implementing 2 patents in collaboration with Nokia, and also backed by Scottish Enterprise’s High Growth Startup Programme.

Registration

We ask everyone to sign up individually, so we can have an estimate of how many people want to attend. We will also check-in each person on Eventbrite as they join the event so make sure you've signed up to the event in order to attend!

What is Techscaler?

Techscaler is a Scottish Government funded programme, delivered by CodeBase, and offers tailored support for everyone in Scotland who wants to build a startup, whether they are considering a career in startups or are developing, building and scaling an idea.
We offer Community and Member access to world-class education, a peer-led online and offline community, and flexible workspaces.
Techscaler membership is for any prospective or current startup founder, startup employees, or more broadly anyone who is involved in the Scottish tech ecosystem. Membership offers tailored support depending on your goals. When someone applies to become a Techscaler member, our team can direct applicants to the most suitable Techscaler support.
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