Nick Roberts and the LinkedIn Profile Behind Scalare Partners

By Nick Roberts

Nick Roberts is a Founding Partner of Scalare Partners, the Sydney-based early-stage technology accelerator and investor he helped build. His LinkedIn profile offers a window into the career that led him there, tracing a path across risk, compliance and company-building that spans several continents.

According to his own account, Scalare Partners grew out of a chance meeting in late 2019 between three tech leaders. Nick describes co-founding the firm alongside James Walker and Giles Bourne, with the business formally established in January 2020. Scalare went on to provide investment, products, services and advice to support early-stage technology companies and their founders, and today its partner team includes Giles Bourne, James Walker, Tim Griffiths, Jenny Li and chief executive Carolyn Breeze.

Nick's profile reflects more than two decades of international experience building businesses across the UK, Europe, the United States and the Asia Pacific, with a focus on risk and compliance. Before Scalare, he served as Chief Executive Officer of RISQ Group, an employment screening and verification business operating in the APAC region. Earlier, he was a director and co-founder of Complinet, the London-based compliance information and software company, where he is credited with establishing the US and APAC operations before the business was acquired by Thomson Reuters. His LinkedIn record also notes work co-founding DataNet Marketing Services, a consumer media business.

That compliance and verification background continues to inform his work. Nick is an advisor to AsiaVerify and, speaking as a Scalare Founding Partner, publicly expressed continuing support for the company following a funding announcement. It is a thread that runs through much of his career, connecting the enterprises he has built with the founders he now backs.

The profile captures a founder whose experience in scaling technology businesses across markets now sits at the centre of Scalare Partners. For Nick, the opportunity is in applying that hard-won expertise to the next generation of early-stage founders.