In the B2B sales world, growth is usually a function of connections, capital and crew. For emerging brands, these resources are often in short supply. For this reason, brands are limited in their ability to increase revenue in a short period, and retailers need to constantly find new stock for their customers to keep them… Read more »
Australian online fashion boutique St Frock has made good business out of being ahead of the tech curve. It all started back in 2005 when Sandradee Makejev started selling trendy women’s dresses at a Bondi Beach market stall. In 2009, she started a Facebook page for St Frock. At the time, social media’s potential as… Read more »
People have wallet overload. Most of us have multiple cards and accounts; business, personal, joint account, investments, home loans, credit cards, debit cards, loyalty and rewards just to name a few. With the rise of contactless transactions, Zibra co-founders Trina Ray Choudhury and Elliot Braham realised there was a huge opportunity to automate the way… Read more »
For many young people in relationships, it can be a challenge to try and find fun and interesting things to do for dates. For this reason, close friends Dean Gruskin, Jason Sun and Josh Israeli set up date night marketplace, Urban Swan, aiming to solve the problem of bad and boring dating experiences. Urban Swan… Read more »
Waiting for payday is a thing of the past with Paytime, a new HR fintech that gives employees access to their pay checks before pay day. Startup Daily sits down with CEO and founder Steven Furman to find out how technology has fuelled the platform’s rapid growth. Steven came up with the concept of Paytime… Read more »
In the engineering world, everything comes down to numbers. If there are any mistakes throughout the planning and construction phase of a project, there can be huge financial and safety risks. For that reason, engineers, in particular, have to spend hours working through complex formulas and equations to make sure anything that gets built is… Read more »
While there are many benefits to owning an electric vehicle, Australia has lagged much of the world when it comes to the shift to EVs. So Will Wise, Tanvir Uddin and Tessa Fields have founded Vyro in a bid to bring electric vehicles to all Australians. The team saw that the country was falling behind… Read more »
With increasing numbers of university students turning to online education, dropout rates have reached an all-time high. With a background in education and technology, qualified teacher Greg Higgins realised this was a growing issue and in the process, is costing institutions and students billions of dollars each year. To try and solve this problem, Greg… Read more »
In the tech-centric world we now live in, there aren’t many bigger hassles than trying to remember dozens of passwords for various sites and accounts. This has become such an issue, that most platforms lose new customers due to the inconvenience of having to sign up to yet another site. EZiD co-founders Prashant Murali, Dhruv… Read more »
Melbourne-based customer experience firm meldCX has reached new markets by tapping into the power of a global cloud platform partner. Since its launch in 2017, meldCX has been helping businesses and individuals to create premier customer experiences through AI and intelligent edge technologies. For example, its systems can track a customer journey in a retail… Read more »
Every SaaS startup wants to be the next unicorn. A new program run by the largest technology distributor in the world wants to help you get there. Scaling your startup poses a number of unique challenges. There’s the operational and technical issues around getting the right architectures and services to build and maintain your solution… Read more »
Antler, a global early-stage VC, has made 18 new investments in early-stage Australian startups as part of a broader expansion of the firm, locally and globally. Read more on that here. The recent investments were made in the last five months alone, and see the firm’s portfolio swell to more than 60 early-stage startups across Sydney… Read more »
Have you ever stopped to wonder just how much your mood is connected to the food you eat? Well, WIRL co-founders Alicia Holmquest and Bree Pagonis, who are also dietitians, have and are now pioneering a way to improve people’s mental health using food. A growing body of scientific research and years of industry experience… Read more »
After all the time we’ve spent in and out of lockdowns in the past two year, there’s one thing we know for sure – online browsing (the digital replacement for window shopping) has become a national sport. But what might be a harmless activity for the browser can be a frustrating challenge for businesses because… Read more »
Every startup founder has heard the advice “fail fast”. But what do you do next and how do you learn from those mistakes? The startup journey can be like a rollercoaster ride: soaring highs when things go right, deep lows when they don’t. The concept of “flearning” – failing, but learning from those mistakes –… Read more »
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