Rachel Carrell: Building Europe's largest childcare platform and having a baby during a Series A raise

The ‘Diaspora’ podcast features Blackbird entrepreneur in residence (EIR) and investor David Booth, profiling the founders, innovators, and emerging leaders of the great Kiwi expat community.

In this episode, Booth, joined by cohost Phoebe Harrop, sits down with Rachel Carrell, founder and CEO of KoruKids, Europe’s largest childcare platform – training, matching, and supporting over 10,000 nannies across London.

Today, Koru Kids takes care of taxes, payroll, pension, holidays, nanny communications, activity ideas and a dozen other things that can come up when dealing with nannies. This lowers the cost for families and helps kids have more engaging, enriching experiences.

They discuss Carrell’s story from hustling chocolates and home-grown lottery schemes on the streets of Invercargill to strategising her way into a Rhodes scholarship that helped her land a place – and finally “find her people” – at the University of Oxford in the UK and on to London, where she’s been ever since, consulting with McKinsey, raising a family, building, investing in and advising startups.

Listen in here.