Kiri Young

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Founder & CEO at Wharf Ops | ex-Naver

Wharf Ops
Auckland, New Zealand · NZST (UTC+12)
8+ years experience
Melbourne Business School
English, Spanish
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Overview

Building Wharf Ops in Auckland - vertical SaaS for clinics. Raised $19 million across 3 rounds. Most at home with fundraising and hiring.

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Skills
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RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1M seed for compliance automation for law firms

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$821k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
28 enterprise pilots after 18 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

28 enterprise pilots after 18 months. Looking for investors who know wealth management and can help with regulatory approvals.

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HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for founding engineers to join Wharf Ops early - vertical SaaS for clinics

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$122k-$192k + equity
Team
Founding team, 9 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with healthcare Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp S$132k-S$240k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Wharf Ops · 10 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Signed 186 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $4 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Senior Account Executive
    Feb 2024 - Dec 2025
    Naver · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Closed 192% of quota two years running.
  3. Partnerships Manager
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2024
    EY · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Opened 10 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.
    • Built the healthcare team from 2 to 38 reps.
  4. Regional Sales Director
    Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
    Amazon · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Auckland, New Zealand
    • Built the healthcare team from 4 to 12 reps.

Projects

Vertical SaaS for clinics benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing fundraising and hiring on real workloads.

Open-source go-to-market toolkit
2023

A small library for vertical SaaS for clinics that 376 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Melbourne Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. Chulalongkorn University
    BEng, Computer Science
    2014 - 2018

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