It was shaping up to be one of the defining corporate court tussles of 2026: a thoroughly modern legal dispute between a software upstart and the older incumbent it is trying to unseat, which also happens to be one of its investors.
Yet after months of explosive claims and counterclaims, and barely a week into the new year, Employment Hero v Seek ended not with a bang but with a whimper.
Capital Brief was first out the gate to report on Thursday that the $2 billion HR unicorn and the ASX-listed jobs website have settled their dispute over access to the latter’s platform.
The lawsuit, launched last June and extensively covered by our startups and VC correspondent Bronwen Clune, was hurtling towards a high-stakes trial later this year.
