{"id":588407,"date":"2026-04-06T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588407\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:35:08","slug":"safetyculture-founder-luke-anear-buys-twine-seeks-ai-advantage-amid-market-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588407\/","title":{"rendered":"SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear buys Twine, seeks AI advantage amid market reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SafetyCulture, one of the country\u2019s biggest private software companies, has acquired Sydney-based sales analytics start-up Twine in the first of a spree of buyouts aimed at asserting its place in a market undergoing a global reckoning due to the rise of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear returned to running the day-to-day operations of the workplace safety company last month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/safetyculture-ceo-exits-amid-global-ai-reckoning-20260225-p5o5bg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the sudden departure of former chief executive Kelly Vohs<\/a>. In that time, SafetyCulture finalised the Twine acquisition, submitted a term sheet on another potential buyout and entered the final stages of talks with a third.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SafetyCulture, one of the country\u2019s biggest private software companies, has acquired Sydney-based sales analytics start-up Twine in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-588407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}