Early stage investment company Antler Australia recently backed 13 startups as part of its ongoing program to build great local tech companies. Over the next six weeks, Startup Daily will share the details of each venture in the “Antler Investor Memos” series. You can also meet the founders on the Startup Daily show on ausbiz.com.au… Read more »
Early stage investment company Antler Australia recently backed 13 startups as part of its ongoing program to invest in great local tech companies. Over the next six weeks, Startup Daily will share the details of each venture in the “Antler Investor Memos” series. You can also meet the founders on the Startup Daily show on… Read more »
Talent retention is becoming increasingly challenging in the current startup landscape. Startup Daily asked an Aussie unicorn, a rising fintech star and a modern HR platform how they’re tackling it head on. One of the hottest topics in the Australian and New Zealand startup ecosystem today is talent. Employee priorities have changed with The Great Resignation (or… Read more »
It’s no secret the rental market is a mess, but Brisbane startup Rent Rabbit is already fixing things up. And with their EOI campaign, you can get in on the ground floor and clean up too. This proptech startup founded by brothers James and Ben Pretty has been called “a kind of TripAdvisor for renters”,… Read more »
In the current market downturn, startups are looking to tighten their belts. There’s no more obvious place to start than some of the more, shall we say, expendable employee expenses. Can that work trip be a Zoom call instead? Why the Uber Black and not just regular Uber? Is that ‘client entertainment’ really for the client?… Read more »
No matter how great your startup idea is, if you can’t fund it, you can’t build it. With that in mind, we asked three startup founders for their most game-changing revenue raising moves. Whether you’re bootstrapping or capital raising, you need to hit certain money milestones to successfully grow your startup and scale it into… Read more »
Finding trustworthy partners is key to any startup success, as Nicco Global founder and CEO Richelle Nicols has discovered. Working out who you should do business with in the early days is fraught with emotion and the knowledge that if you stuff it up, you’re putting your startup at risk. It’s a feeling Richelle Nicols… Read more »
Four years ago, Zoe Condliffe was living in a van when she launched her startup She’s A Crowd as a solo founder. Now, Zoe runs a team of 12 ‘data activists’ who are making a powerful impact on the lives of women and gender-diverse people across Australia. Almost 90 per cent of women who experience sexual… Read more »
A brand you kinda want to be buds with, the aptly named telco MATE is only six years old and has already clocked up $100 million in revenue, employed 83 staff (including 19 cousins), and cemented hundreds of thousands of quantifiably happy customers. Built off the promise to be a telco “Aussies can trust”, the fully… Read more »
Whether you’re just stepping into Web3, or you’ve been busy paving roads for a while now, there’s no denying that it’s a vast and often confusing place to be. “We are literally rethinking everything from the ground up,” Colette Grgic, Head of Startup Ecosystem, AU & NZ for AWS said at the recent Startups in… Read more »
Hnry believes sole traders should have access to world-class tax accountancy services. They say there’s no other certainty in life than death and taxes, but for many sole traders, doing their taxes is a kind of death. Death by a thousand numbers, receipts, deadlines and obligations. It’s enough to kill the startup dream. Then along… Read more »
OnePassport knows that when people trust you with their personal information, data security matters more than anything. COVID resulted in many headaches, but one less talked about is the avalanche of administration brought down on small business. The paperwork and monitoring involved in ensuring the ever-changing compliance of your workforce can bury even the most… Read more »
Raising capital is a massive challenge for any startup. It’s not just the who, what and where – it’s the how. There are generally two types of capital available to a startup or scaleup: debt and equity. Debt capital is the kind you’re used to: you borrow money from a lender and pay it back… Read more »
The cost of personal distraction to mental health and productivity has been well documented. But less understood is the impact of distraction on SaaS startup growth. Having your attention constantly drawn to shiny new things (or even mundane things) will have a massive impact on your ability to grow your business. It takes your focus… Read more »
The stage is set for one of the year’s big moments for the Sydney startup ecosystem: the Visiting Entrepreneur Program 2022. Global thinkers and local entrepreneurs will discuss how transformative technologies can tackle major global challenges, in a series of 17 free events organised by the City of Sydney, from June 22 to July 1. Autonomous vehicles,… Read more »
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