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FL0, the Canva of software development, bags $5.1 million seed round

Simon Thomsen - July 5, 2021 2 MIN READ

Sydney startup FL0 has raised $5.1 million in a seed round led by Blackbird Ventures. The venture (pronounced Flow), co-founded by serial entrepreneur Dale Brett, is looking to speed up coding with a low-code format, pioneering what it calls “dev acceleration” in a Canva-style democratisation of software engineering While still in beta mode, early customer… Read more »

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Why product development company Wizeline went beyond Silicon Valley to find tech talent

Gina Baldassarre - September 3, 2018 3 MIN READ

The son of Mexican immigrants to California, Bismarck Lepe had to overcome some long-held biases when a consultant suggested his startup, Wizeline, build a development hub in the Mexican city of Guadalajara.

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We blew $100k, our tech was a disaster, and we had to start again

Andrew Joyce - August 14, 2018 4 MIN READ

Two months further on we still didn’t have any product to speak of – let alone demonstrate to potential customers. Alarm bells started ringing.