A nine-month wait to finalise their pre-Seed round has paid off for product market testing startup Heatseeker, nearly doubling its size to US$1.5 (A$2.3m). The raise was led by San Francisco-based Capital F, with support from Dom Pym’s family office, Euphemia, Even Capital and East End Ventures. In September last year, the Sydney via Gold… Read more »
Gold Coast startup Heatseeker has raised $1.3 million in an ongoing pre-Seed round, topped up by $200,000 from the state government’s investment fund, Advance Queensland. The Gold Coast startup was cofounded in 2023 by former Silicon Valley entrepreneur Kate O’Keeffe and former Naked Ambition CEO Fiona Triaca. Their AI platform help companies conduct quick, easy,… Read more »
The goal of customer research at the earliest stages of a startup journey is to help us validate/ invalidate the assumptions we have made when believing we that we know what customers want. Chances are, in the first few years, your tech startup is more based on a hypothesis than the satisfied paying customers you’re… Read more »
Last week I was chatting with a founder who claimed they had achieved product-market fit with their novel technology business. She and her co-founder had been working hard on the product for months. Their solution was in beta, it already had several users, and was generating valuable feedback from these users. She proudly explained that… Read more »
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