Josh Whitaker

Founder @ Convose Ltd.

About

👋 Hi 2025! 🚀 I'm building a startup: Convose.com Convose is going to be the search engine for finding new relationships. A search engine exists for everything (videos=Youtube, products=Amazon, websites=Google, gifs=Giphy, etc) but there is still no search engine for finding new relationships. How strange is that! Instead, everyone is divided across the internet looking for new relationships on many platforms. I've researched 1000s of existing platforms and every one makes the mistake of only focusing on one kind of new-relationship (e.g., Linkedin just does professional relationships, Hellotalk just does language exchanges, etc). This forces us and our keywords across many different platforms and makes it impossible to do a single search across everyone and impossible to do searches across domains (e.g., find a cofounder who has a specific skill AND specific hobby). There are so many relevant relationships around us that we are all missing because even if those people were searching using the internet, chances are they would be searching on a different platform to you and even if they were wouldn't have put a fraction of their keywords on that platform. Convose will make finding new, specific, relevant people as easy, quick and painless as finding specific videos on Youtube. Check out our pitch deck here: https://tinyurl.com/y8zu5caw 🙋‍♂️ About me: I travelled a lot; volunteering, hitchhiking, camping, couch surfing. Around Europe but also Africa, Asia and my birth place Australia. My aim was to visit many countries, learn languages and generally have awesome experiences while spending as little money as possible (because working wasn't interesting), I really liked meeting new people. People say I lost my Australian accent now. I lived in the boarding house for my last two years of school and loved to hangout with the foreigners there too. After finishing my travels I often remember feeling alone & wishing I could find people like me which is one thing that lead me to the idea of Convose. #hiring #fundraising

Country

Australia

City

Sydney

Industry

Internet

Skill

Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Project Management, Pitching Ideas, Startup Development, Team Building, User Experience, User Interface Design, Linguistics, German, Web Design, Strategy, Chinese, Recruiting, Proofreading, Growth Hacking, Languages, Startup Marketing, Teaching English as a Second Language

Experience

Founder

Convose Ltd.

2019-8 - Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

🚀 Convose is going to be the search engine for finding new relationships (convose.com/about). A search engine exists for everything (Youtube=videos, Amazon=Stuff, Google=websites, etc) but there is still no search engine for finding new relationships. How strange is that! Instead, everyone is divided across the internet looking for new relationships on many platforms. Existing platforms make the mistake of only focusing on one kind of new-relationship (e.g., Linkedin just does professional relationships, Hellotalk just does language exchanges). This makes it impossible to do a single search across everyone and impossible to do searches across domains (e.g., find a cofounder who has a specific skill AND specific hobby). There are so many relevant relationships around us that we are all missing because even if those people were searching using the internet, chances are they would be searching on a different platform to you. Most people don't bother searching for specific new people because of how confusing and difficult it is. Convose will make it as easy as finding specific videos on Youtube, i.e., find any specific new-person/relationship within seconds.