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 »
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 »
Online training software company ReadyTech is expanding its Centre of Excellence at the University of Tasmania, with backing from the state government ReadyTech (ASX:RDY) provides software services to organisations, including educators, medium-sized employers, and local and state governments, ranging from student services to employee management and payroll, ratepayer services, and case management for the justice… Read more »
At Startup Daily’s recent 2023 Tech Playbook From Idea to Unicorn event, our expert panel unpacked the fundamentals of scaling a SaaS business. In a panel moderated by Matthew Allford, Content Creator and DevOps Engineer at Idea to Unicorn community partner Parallo, founders and technology leaders discussed the major challenges and opportunities when growing SaaS businesses in… 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 »
Enterprise risk management software company announced Protecht Group Holdings has raised $42 million in a Series A. California growth equity firm Arrowroot Capital backed the SaaS company. The cash injection will be used to accelerate new features in Protecht’s products, maintain and expand customer service and continued global expansion. Based in Sydney, and founded in… Read more »
Accounting practice management software company Karbon has raised $US66 million (A$93m) from US investor Tidemark Capital. The seven-year-old US-based Australian venture now operates in more than 20 countries offering cloud-based business management software for SMB accounting firms. It is now the preeminent independent practice management solution in the accounting industry globally. The latest round comes… Read more »
You may not realise it, but your cloud platform plays a crucial part in scaling your business and attracting funding. Here’s a typical scenario: Your development team is missing deadlines for new product features or paid feature requests because they’re constantly getting pulled away from development to put out operational fires on your cloud platform.… Read more »
Software startup Hudled, which has designed dashboard for growing companies to track and optimise their software stack, has raised $640,000 in a seed round as it officially launches the product and looks to expand into the US. The raise was backed by Black Nova Group, Antler and Sydney Angels, as well as several high profile… Read more »
As companies grow and scale, software subscriptions are acquired and changed frequently, leading to a number of licences becoming redundant or unutilised, resulting in a waste of time and money. In fact, “33% of software licenses should be switched off,” says co-founder and co-CEO Adam Ross. His SaaS solution CloudOlive, which was recently developed and… Read more »
Despite the fact that $800 billion is spent on sales compensation annually in the US alone, the process is still being managed by legacy enterprise software or complex spreadsheets that quickly outgrow their purpose. Alexander Green, co-founder and CEO of motiveOS, is building a real-time commission app that provides accuracy and visibility to the… Read more »
Companies spend more on SaaS than ever before. This has created a maze of duplicate accounts and low accountability, resulting in 30% unused paid subscriptions. Enterprise solutions currently on the market are highly human driven with costly sales and onboarding processes, usually offering one-way sync and endless integrations. Hudled co-founders, Alexander Millar and Santiago Bravo,… Read more »
At AirTree, we often get founders asking us how they can improve their sales performance and the answer always involves a deep dive into their sales funnel metrics.
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