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How two former Deputy leaders bootstrapped a tech agency to $2 million ARR in 2 years by solving problems software creates

Simon Thomsen - January 6, 2026 2 MIN READ

When Jake Shelley and Joseph Pons, former senior leaders at Deputy, launched their Sydney startup Jiffi in 2023, they started with a simple thesis: the tech industry is broken. Software oversaturation has left companies burdened with fragmented systems and inefficient processes that technology alone cannot repair. So as tech set out to build yet another… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

AI consulting platform banks $1 million pre-Seed round

Startup Daily - April 11, 2025 < 1 MIN READ

An AI startup that takes corporate consultancy into the digital age has raised $1 million in pre-Seed funding. The round for NSW startup InsightWise was led by California VC Aliavia Ventures and Ari Klinger’s Sydney family office, No Brand Holdings, with support from Victoria Denholm’s Wollemi Capital Group, angel syndicate FB10x and other angels here and… Read more »

Politics

National Audit Office says the Morrison government wasted millions in tendering on the Entrepreneurs’ Programme

Casey Tonkin - June 29, 2022 3 MIN READ

The government mishandled $163 million worth of contracts for the Entrepreneurs’ Programme by favouring incumbents, not measuring tender applicants against the stated criteria, and failing to mitigate against conflicts of interest, a report from the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has found. In 2019, the Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources (DISER) put service provision… Read more »

Topic

Financial predicition platform Investfit launches in Australia with $1.5 million Series A funding

James Ward - March 23, 2017 2 MIN READ

Fintech Investfit has launched today with $1.5 million in Series A funding, offering a platform that uses an algorithm to predict a user’s financial future.