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Meet the team behind Gether
Elly Bartens is both a mum and a professional who got tired of missing things for her kids – forgetting library days, PJ days, and gold coin donations. Between the school emails, WhatsApps, newsletters, sports and party invitations…the mental load was very overwhelming and caused a lot of anxiety. Together with her sister, Claire Waring, they decided to take action to try and solve the problem.
Gether research revealed they weren’t alone. Parents across the globe effectively lead double lives with a day job and an extra shift of family responsibility on top. Ninety percent of women feel solely responsible for their family’s schedule and spend a staggering 520 hours per year on this invisible labour.
Gether was built to address this critical problem - it’s an AI-powered app built by parents to ease mental load, save time and reduce the anxiety that comes with family organisation.
And this isn’t just a personal crusade, this is a global economic opportunity. Unlocking equal participation in the workforce could add 12 trillion in GDP and be instrumental in closing the gender gap for good.
What’s missing are tools.
A CFO has SAP and a CSO has salesforce. If we treat the home as an organisation the person in charge needs the right tools to succeed.The CEO of a home now has Gether.
Meet the Gether Team
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Elly Bartens
CEO
Elly has 15+ years start up experience building data analytics teams and martech products. Co-Founder of Tribes.AI (SaaS) and GM of Datalicious - built to 50 people, $10M+ consultancy with successful Equifax exit. AMES Award for Analytics Innovation with Telstra, Co-Published Whitepapers with EConsultancy & Meta. Mum of two.
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Chris Bartens
CTO
Christian drives Gether’s technical strategy, having engineered and deployed the AI-powered family assistant platform from the ground up. He brings an exceptional track record of scaling tech enterprises, notably founding data analytics firm Datalicious and growing it into a $10M APAC market leader before a strategic acquisition by Equifax.
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How can you get in touch with us?
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We’d love to hear from you, the best way to reach us is at hello@gether.life
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Let’s chat! We’re happy to contribute to articles and interviews. We can also supply you with a press pack and answer any questions you may have on mental load, working parents, gender equality, empowering mums in the workplace and AI enabled parenting.
Reach us directly: elly@gether.life