Austin Tasker

Co-Founder & CEO at THE CIRKEL - Top UK & Europe Fastest Growing Fashion Startup ๐Ÿš€ Sifted 100 & 250, 2025

United Kingdom

About

Co-Founder at THE CIRKEL - Keeping clothes in circulation by making second-hand fashion everyone's first choice. Ex Senior strategy, business ops, programme management, Lean and tech in Banking and Asset Management. Ex Director - Mous (voted UK's 3rd ranked start-up) + other successful start-up ventures. Very happy to connect with the investor community and individuals who would like to see our purpose-led, circular / responsible online fashion marketplace grow. MBA โœ” MPA โœ” PRINCE2 โœ” Lean โœ” Agile โœ”

Experience

  • Co-Founder at The Cirkel
    Mar 2020 - Present ยท 6 yrs 5 mos

    Women's fashion resale. www.thecirkel.com Top UK & Europe Fastest Growing Fashion Startup ๐Ÿš€ Sifted 100 & 250, 2025 Elevating the online second-hand fashion experience and reducing the impact of textile waste by increasing circularity through a 'multi-cycle' resale model. โ™ป๏ธ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ› Before pivoting into womenswear, we launched Kidclo which quickly became the UK's largest managed children's pre-loved store. Reducing the 350,000 tonnes of clothing that go into UK landfill each year.

  • Head of Operations at Grasp.hr
    Dec 2019 - Oct 2020 ยท 11 mos

    Grasp - Early stage SaaS Start-up. Redefining mentoring for your future workforce. www.grasp.hr Acquired by Hinsta Performance, 2021.

  • FeedUp Founder, then WeFiFo Co-Founder, then NED at WeFiFo
    May 2017 - Nov 2019 ยท 2 yrs 7 mos

    FeedUp - Airbnb meets MasterChef (with purpose). Acquired by WeFiFo, 2018. Prior to acquisition FeedUp hosts created over 370 experiential dining events in and around London. Empowering over 100 chefs to create their own pop-up experiences with thousands of happy customers. In a world where humans are more digitally connected than ever, we are feeling increasingly disconnected and alone. FeedUp brought people together in the most traditional way - by sitting down, breaking bread and sharing a delicious meal together. Over 10,000 meals donated for people in desperate need via supported charities UKHARVEST and OZHARVEST *Finalist for Australia Media Campaign of the year 2016, Partnering with Australian Lamb in MVP / test stage - (MLA / IPG media - Sydney, Australia)

  • Consultant Director at Mous
    Dec 2017 - Nov 2018 ยท 1 yr

    - Forbes UK Hottest Startups - Top 10 - UK Startups 100 index, 2018 - 3rd - Sunday Times Fast Track 100, 2018 (one to watch) - Crowdfunded business of the year, 2017 From an incredible crowdfunding campaign to one of the UK's highest ranked Start-ups / Growth Businesses in a year. www.mous.co

  • Senior Strategy Manager at Westpac
    Jun 2013 - Mar 2017 ยท 3 yrs 10 mos