Furrst class: Meet the Aussie startup partnering with Delta Airlines to revolutionise pet travel
After moving to Singapore with her dog in 2014, Australian startup founder Jenny Pan realised pet travel hadn't changed in 45 years.
TripAdvisor for pets: How Lumi the groodle caused these founders to leave their corporate jobs for startupland
Becoming pet parents to their groodle Lumi saw these founders leave the corporate world behind to found the TripAdvisor, Facebook and Tinder for dogs.
“I probably underestimated myself”: How Linda Eddy beat the odds and built ‘Uber for waste’ app EzyBin
EzyBin, a self-described ‘Uber for the waste industry’, connects users with skip bins on demand, and facilitates their delivery, pickup and payment.
“A Trojan horse thing”: Meet the user experience guru who forced Twitter to introduce the #hashtag
When Chris Messina took his idea the 'hashtag' to Twitter, they thought it was too complex and users would never use them.
“Unicorn-sized” opportunity: ‘Tinder for food’ pitch wins Newcastle entrepreneur spot in $100,000 Silicon Valley accelerator
A 25-year-old entrepreneur has found herself in one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent accelerator programs with her Tinder for food app Eatsee.
‘The future of motoring’: Why a former bank worker decided to launch a limo service for Teslas
After sitting in the passenger seat of a Tesla Model S five years ago, Pia Peterson had somewhat of an epiphany, and two years later Evoke was born.
Meet the Aussie entrepreneur letting you diagnose the flu through your smartphone
Australian healthtech startup Ellume is letting patients effectively self-diagnose for the flu and other common illnesses through their smartphones.
‘What we’ve been looking for’: How Australian startup BlockTexx is turning discarded clothes into raw, commodity-level plastic
BlockTexx, launched about 12 months ago, has the lofty goal of solving Australia's (and the world’s) textile waste problem.
“The odds are stacked against you”: Meet the Aussie founder out to disrupt the property market on a global scale
Airlisting is out to disrupt the way property is purchased across the world, but founder Veronica Gravolin is taking a slowly-does-it approach, for now.
Don’t call me Uber: Why disability support startup Hireup is ditching the gig economy model
Hireup has won national awards, saved clients millions, and is growing like crazy. But one thing it's not is the ‘Uber of disability’.
How twins Emily and Sarah Hamilton grew beauty startup bellabox to 40,000 subscribers, and why they stopped that growth on purpose
As bellabox nears its seventh birthday, co-founder Sarah Hamilton opens up about family matters, mistake made, and the decision to stop growing.
Australia’s VC power couple: Why Ian Gardiner walked away from Amazon to join his wife’s investment venture
Last month, Ian Gardiner, stalwart of the Australian startup scene, left AWS to join Jelix Ventures, working under chief executive (and his wife) Andrea.