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Mark Maloney on Balanced Success

01/09/201721/05/2019 Peter van Bruchem

Disruptive Parcels: Sendle’s James Chin Moody on the importance of focus in an ever changing technological landscape.

23/08/201730/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

In Techboard’s latest feature interview Robin Block speaks to James Chin Moody. James is the Founder & CEO of Sendle who were ranked fifth in the June Techboard Ranking. Sendle is a parcel delivery service that is changing the face of shipping in Australia by making door-to-door delivery affordable. Sendle has grown at near 20% per-month for the last two years and is the second high-growth technology startup James has founded since leaving his position on the executive team at CSIRO in 2012. Techboard Contributor Robin Block from MitchelLake sat down with James to gain his perspective on the disintermediated economy and understand the methods employed to accommodate Sendle’s rapid expansion. In this interview we gain insight into the importance of culture and bringing to bear both the intellectual and emotional brain to fully understand big decisions.

What Investors Seek – 8 Lessons from Entrepreneur Investor Rajeev Gupta

18/08/201730/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard Ranking Sector Spotlight for July 2017: Augmented/Virtual Reality Companies

16/08/201718/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Techboard has been publishing its monthly Techboard Ranking which shines a spotlight on the highest trending Australian startups and Young Tech Companies. In order to highlight the work of more great companies, starting this month we have decided that in-between our monthly rankings we are going to publish a list of the top ranked companies in a particular sector. The first cab off the rank is for us to have a look at Companies in the augmented and virtual reality fields. A big thanks to Rafael Kimberley-Bowen and the rest of the Techboard team for their hard work that goes into producing the Techboard Rankings and commentaries.

B2B Rocks 2017 & 1st Startups Awards – 28 September 2017

15/08/201711/09/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Our friends at B2B Rocks have run conferences on B2B & SaaS startups since 2003, with three conferences in Paris and the first in Sydney last year. B2B Rocks are bringing their conference series back to Australia for a second time. It is shaping up to be a great conference.

Come along to B2B Rocks 2017 and learn from world-class experts, pickup fast on latest insights and techniques and meet doers shaping the B2B ecosystem. The conference will feature leading founders, investors and experts in the B2B and SAAS space, including Jason Wyatt from Marketplacer, Chris Gilbert from Equitise, Bridget Loudon from Expert360, who came 4th in the July Techboard Ranking, Nicolas Chu from Sinorbis and many more. The conference will take place in Sydney, Thursday 28 September 2017 at Lendlease Headquarters in Barangaroo. Over the coming week we will be bringing you a series of interviews of speakers from the conference. See the interviews below.

Techboard Company Traction Report July 2017

10/08/201711/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Welcome to Techboard’s Company Traction Report for July 2017. In these reports we highlight traction by Australian startups and young technology companies, broken into the three headings of News coverage, Milestones and Funding events. We collect this data as a major input into the monthly Techboard Ranking. This month have news mentions, milestones and Funding events for 200 Australian startups and tech companies. The companies are listed in the order in which they appeared in the July Techboard Ranking.

Prospa tops the Techboard Ranking for a Second Time – July 2017

04/08/201707/11/2017 Peter van Bruchem

The Australian startup and tech sector continues to achieve great things. This month Techboard has collected data on 1,390 companies, thats 140 or more than 10% more than last month, collected 532 news items, identified 138 milestones and 35 funding events. We will be publishing our summary of the News, Milestones and Funding events that we collected this month in our Techboard Company Traction Report out next week. Subscribe at the foot of the page to get our Newsletters or Sign up to get free access to the full ranking results and Traction Reports on Techboard.

Prospa was Australia's hottest startup in July, with strong news coverage of its $20m venture debt funding from US-based Partners for Growth. The NSW company was also the first ever fintech to receive the 2017 Telstra New South Wales Medium Business Award, and it featured in CB Insights' Fintech 250. This is the second time that Prospa has topped the Techboard Ranking, the last time in February on the back of its $25m round led by Airtree Ventures. Speaking to Techboard, Beau Bertoli, Joint CEO and co-founder said:

Techboard Partners with OFX

02/08/201704/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Jetstar to ROKTstar – Techboard talks to Bruce Buchanan CEO of Sydney Startup ROKT

27/07/201730/08/2017 Peter van Bruchem

Our friend Robin Block spoke recently with Bruce Buchanan, CEO of Sydney born ROKT, a transaction marketing firm that provides e-commerce companies and performance marketers the capability to connect with customers just as they make an online purchase. ROKT has successfully established an international presence and grown annually at near 100 per cent since 2012. This expansion is slated to continue as the company secured AU$ 34.5 million in capital investment earlier this year for a number of initiative, particularly acquisitional expansion. Robin spoke to Bruce about high-growth businesses and taking Australian brands international. (ROKT was the second highest ranked company in the Techboard Ranking of trending Australian startups and young tech companies for June 2017.)

Techboard Report reveals over $625M in funding

18/07/201715/01/2018 Peter van Bruchem

This is the third funding report we have published, and the first time we have covered the whole of Australia – an exciting milestone for Techboard! The report only includes funding events (including equity, debt, acquisition and grants) confirmed in the June 2017 quarter, involving startups and young tech companies which are eligible for a listing on Techboard. We put together our funding reports based on the data collected in the course of running the monthly Techboard Ranking, supplemented with intel from Techboard’s many investor contacts across the country.