AI/Machine Learning

Workplace culture platform Hoogly takes the world by storm, winning UK and US awards as it closes $1 million raise

- May 6, 2025 2 MIN READ

Mohit Midha, cofounder and CEO of Hoogly was at Blackbird’s Sunrise last week, tired but unable to stop smiling after global recognition for his employee engagement startup in California and London. The fact that he set out to also raise $500,000 and now has $1 million with 10 days left before he closes his latest… Read more »

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Business

New research reveals important financial reasons for work from home policies

- May 2, 2025 4 MIN READ

In the pre-industrial era, people often lived and worked in the same building. This removed the need to travel to work. The separation of home and work occurred much later, during the Industrial Revolution. Factories and offices were grouped in designated areas and residential zoning was invented. Even then, people typically spent about 60 to… Read more »

Leadership

The great gossip paradox – is what you’re talking about just chat or laying the groundwork for scandal?

- March 18, 2025 3 MIN READ

When two junior employees bump into each other in the corridor and start chatting about their manager’s overbearing manner, it’s typically considered gossip. But what about when two managers have an off-record catch-up to discuss an under-performing employee? Both scenarios meet traditional definitions of gossip – the information being shared is about other people, the… Read more »

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Business strategy

5 HR strategies you need to run startups

- December 5, 2024 3 MIN READ

Building a successful and sustainable business as a startup or scaleup goes beyond developing great products or services. Your people are arguably the most critical success factor for growth, and having strong HR strategies in place is essential. Overlooking HR can lead to significant long-term issues, including high employee turnover, misaligned team goals, legal and… Read more »

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Funding

Personality testing AI analysis startup Taly lands $500,000 pre-Seed from Skalata

- December 4, 2024 2 MIN READ

Melbourne startup TALY has raised $500,000 in pre-Seed funding led by Skalata to transform how companies use personality data to make better decisions.  Founder Peter Treloar said that while $4.3 billion is spent annually personality testing, but for the most part it’s poorly utilised.  “The secret of enterprise personality testing is that most of it… Read more »

Accelerator

Antler Investor Memo Series: Yesterday is making hiring smarter, streamlined, and more equitable

- September 13, 2024 3 MIN READ

Early stage investment company Antler Australia recently backed a new cohort of startups as part of its ongoing program to build great local tech companies. Startup Daily is sharing the details of each venture in the “Antler Investor Memos” series, which is designed to give you a quick, sharp understanding of the startups and people… Read more »

Business

Culture Amp acquires people analytics platform Orgnostic

- March 22, 2024 2 MIN READ

Employee experience platform Culture Amp is acquiring a Serbian people analytics startup to broaden its capabilities The cost of the deal with Orgnostic, founded in Belgrade in 2019, was not disclosed. The analytics platform combines fragmented HR data to give leadership teams rapid insights into how their workforce is tracking. That data will be plugged… Read more »

Funding

Kiwi HR feedback startup Joyous raises $14 million

- September 28, 2021 2 MIN READ

A New Zealand workplace feedback startup has raised Nz$15 million (A$14.2m) as it looks to expand internationally. Joyous was founded in 2017 by brothers Mike and Phillip Carden. The raise was led by Square Peg, with existing investors AirTree Ventures and Icehouse Ventures returning for their third round. The investment will also be used to… Read more »

Data

HR tech platform ELMO is using artificial intelligence to predict when staff are about to resign

- May 3, 2021 < 1 MIN READ

ASX-listed payroll and HR software platform ELMO (ASX:ELO) is using artificial intelligence in a new people analytics product that can predict when people are looking to leave the business. The company said its Predictive People Analytics (PPA) module is the first phase of a suite of new machine learning developments  to deliver data-driven insights and… Read more »