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Ben Freeman Interviewed 300 Buyers. Then He Built the Software They Wanted
A teenage-events entrepreneur became an enterprise-software founder by treating curiosity as a job. Now the Omnea CEO is turning his company into a launchpad for the founders who may eventually leave it.
Mark Hurley
Mark Hurley is the co-founder and CEO of Caruso, an AI-native fund administration and registry platform for private markets that spun out of a property fund business in 2023 and now administers roughly $80 billion in assets across 900-plus funds. A serial New Zealand entrepreneur, he earlier built the digital agency Little Giant (sold to Dentsu Aegis Network in 2017) and co-founded the fractional commercial real estate firm Jasper in 2019. He splits his time between Auckland and Dallas and is an active early-stage investor in companies including Tracksuit, Sharesies and First AML.