SafetyCulture was valued at $1.3 billion earlier this year after it secured $60.5 million in fresh funding and the deal follows a series of investments,totalling $9 million,by the workplace safety startup in EdApp.
Founded by Mr Winterford in 2015,EdApp delivers approximately 50,000 lessons per day across 90 countries.
Mr Anear said startup founders were increasingly turning to other founders instead of venture capital firms for funding and advice.
"VCs often aren't operators,they haven't built companies,"he said."I always found the best advice I ever got came from Scott Farquhar from Atlassian,it was very different to VC advice. What you're starting to see now is founders working together to help each other build bigger businesses instead of just taking money."
Mr Anear said just like Atlassian had grown through savvy acquisitions,like that of project management service Trello,SafetyCulture was looking to extend its reach through the EdApp purchase.
"I couldn't go have gone and offered Darren a job and he would come and work here,"he said."The calibre of the person that we need to execute on the global stage are people who can run world leading companies in their own right,and you come together to build something that's much bigger than anyone would do on their own."