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Heidi layoffs 2026
AI health unicorn Heidi is cutting 18% of its headcount, weeks after raising $475 million.
Source: SmartCompany Startups
- Who
- Heidi · Australia
- What happened
- AI health unicorn Heidi is cutting 18% of its headcount, weeks after raising $475 million.
- When
- 2026-11-05
- Source
- SmartCompany Startups
- So what
- Reductions rarely fall evenly, and the read is in the pattern.
The leadership read
Reductions rarely fall evenly, and the read is in the pattern. For Heidi in the sector, cuts like this tend to protect, and sometimes deepen, leadership where the company is betting, while thinning the rest. Across Oceania, watch which functions keep or add leadership; that is the strategy stated plainly.
Market context: Backdrop: a 104.6 (Hot) Talent Market Index (up 3.6 on the month) with Oceania activity easing (-2.1pts).
Heidi: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 6 tracked across 196 days.
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Lightspeed Commerce →Lightspeed laid off employees and closed vacant positions in October, affecting 250 roles, following earlier cuts this year as part of a transformation plan to refocus on core regions and verticals.
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Network Ten →Network Ten is running a cost-cutting drive that includes a staff 'buyout' offer. The company says it is not a redundancy round, but staff and commentators view it as one.
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Woodside Energy Group →Woodside Energy plans to axe more than 500 jobs and cut roughly $570 million from costs, alongside a dividend policy reset to 20-40% of operating cash flow.
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Heidi Health →Medical software start-up Heidi Health is cutting about 18% of its staff, announced by CEO Thomas Kelly, who said the company 'didn't put people in the right spots'.
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David Jones →Australia's oldest department store, David Jones, collapsed after almost 200 years, citing a shift to cheaper online rivals.
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Woodside Energy →Woodside Energy plans to cut at least 10% of its workforce and targets $400M in cost savings.
Where this lands in our work
- Fractional & Interim Executives →
Contraction concentrates scope on fewer leaders, and interim capability covers the gap.
- AI Executive Search →
AI capability is being built into executive stacks, not bolted on beneath them.
- Executive Search: Oceania →
Our Oceania practice runs the searches behind signals like this one.
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