Posts tagged "Rampersand"

Australian startups building space tech and an AI-powered recruitment platform made headlines this week, thanks to a combined $62 million in new funding. 

Sydney-based startup Hatch plans to scale its AI-powered jobs marketplace for gen Z job seekers after closing an oversubscribed $7 million seed funding round.

Remco Marcelis asked three investment experts for their thoughts on the state of the market, and how startup founders can get the edge on equity raising. 

Every startup experiences growing pains, but it’s all part of the journey. At the Melbourne session of Scale Up: Growing your startup beyond a seed, founders came to learn how early stage startups (what AWS Startup Advisor Nikita Le Messurier called a ‘sticky-taped monolith’) can transform into world-beating businesses. Here are the headlines:

With low variable interest rates expiring, more Aussies want to refinance their mortgages. Sherlok's AI lets brokers do this in one click.

We're only a couple of weeks into 2023 but the VC tap is already beginning to trickle with a few early startup raises being announced.

The most difficult challenge in scaling a tech company is finding the right people, which is why it is important to hire for competencies.

Aussie delivery startup Sendle has raised $20 million in Series B funding, with co-founder James Chin-Moody pledging to win more market share.

Some of Australia’s largest VC firms have committed to a 'Model Code of Conduct', taking a stand against sexual harassment and discrimination in startups.

Having graduated from kids’ parties to wine tours, experience startup AmazingCo is already a business on the move, but having raised $2.3 million in seed funding, co-founder Silvia Hope says it’s ready to go global.

The only thing an investor knows for sure when they invest is that things are going to go wrong. Of the hundreds of decisions you make every day as a startup founder, you’ll get a bunch wrong (we all do). Some of those will have no discernible negative impact, some may be catastrophic. Or it may be circumstances outside of your control that cause a crisis or three along the way.

Australian venture capital funds get pitched to by hundreds and hundreds of businesses on a regular basis, but despite the numerous active funds in Australia, the inner machinations of the types and size of those businesses are often left to guesswork. Rampersand head of growth Rose Powell goes behind the scenes.