Australian advertising platform, Zitcha, announced several key additions to its C-Suite and strategic partnerships worldwide as part of an international expansion rolling out throughout 2023. The software platform lets retailers sell advertising space to suppliers to market directly to their customers. It automates marketing purchases by retail brands on retailer channels such as email, apps,… Read more »
Insurance giant IAG’s venture capital arm, Firemark Ventures, has appointed former Fintech Australia boss Rebecca Schot-Guppy a general partner alongside company veteran Bradley Armstrong. The company initially recruited Schot-Guppy as its leverage and portfolio management manager in late 2021. Armstrong has been with the business for nearly a decade, working his way up the ranks from… Read more »
Adelaide-based Fleet Space Technologies has appointed its former head of marketing, Chloe Leclerc, as its new chief marketing officer (CMO). She’s been charged with building Fleet’s go-to-market strategy and presence in Australia and North America, with a focus on its satellite-based solution for minerals exploration. Fleet designs, builds, and operates small satellites which deliver universal… Read more »
Sydney enterprise software company, Capsifi, announced its new executive leadership team. The company has appointed a new Chair, Andrew Barkla, CEO, Ian McAdam, and CRO, Tony Mascarenhas. Capsifi founder and former CEO Dr Terry Roach has decided to shift his attention to the strategy and vision for product innovation. Capsifi is an architecture software platform… Read more »
Digital property investment platform PropHero has appointed Sophie Hayek to the newly created role of CEO Australia. She joined the company in September 2022 as global chief operating officer. The proptech startup helps people find, purchase, and manage investment properties in Australia and Europe as a “next gen” buyer’s agent. Hayek said they want to… Read more »
The Australian Business Growth Fund (ABGF) has anointed former Afterpay chair Elana Rubin to lead its board. Rubin, a former AustralianSuper chair, currently chairs the Victorian Managed Insurance Agency and is a non-executive director at Dexus, Telstra, and Slater & Gordon. She takes on the chair role of ABGF from former NSW premier Mike Baird.… Read more »
Share trading and superannuation fintech Superhero has rehired one of its first employees, Rachel Hopping, as its first head of strategy. She comes to the business after a brief stint at Fintech Australia as head of strategic partnerships and will lead overall business strategy, reporting to CEO and cofounder John Winters. She joins the executive leadership… Read more »
Hotels tech venture, SiteMinder, has appointed former Xero managing director, Trent Innes, as Chief Growth Officer (CGO) and ex Apple executive, Tim Howard, as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). SiteMinder is an open hotel commerce platform, enabling hotels and lodging operators to market, sell, manage and expand their operations. The tech venture provides a complete… Read more »
Former Goldman Sachs executive director Laura Mineo has joined Byron Bay-based merchant payments fintech Zepto as Chief Financial Officer. Her C-suite role follows the appointment of Julia Bearzatto as Chief Product Officer in November last year. Mineo was most recently in New York as CFO at locally-founded, US-based Rokt, Australia’s third most-valuable private tech company behind… Read more »
One of the stupid things I did when I first made money was start an indie music label. It was the early 2000’s, online music was just beginning to take off, and I wanted to learn more about it from the inside. I thought I could see many parallels between the tech startup industry and… Read more »
The Albanese government promisingly used the recent Jobs and Skills Summit to commit to tackling the job and talent crisis head on. One aspect of this included offering 6,800 extra permanent migration places for tech sector workers as a part of a promised 20% increase to this year’s permanent migration intake overall. This is excellent… Read more »
It’s a common misconception that to become a science entrepreneur requires undertaking a research pathway in university or a commercial research lab, or having a university pedigree. It’s also rarely a linear and straight line to the finish. As Cicada Innovation’s founders have demonstrated, successful science entrepreneurs hail from all sorts of divergent backgrounds and… 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 »
Over the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen a flurry of news stories popping up around fast-growing, sexy startups all of a sudden going through layoffs. For a lot of young talent who began their careers post-GFC, this is our first time navigating the world of work in a significant market downturn (and particularly one… 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 »
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