Underlying Profit Before Tax of $86.1m, up 13% Revenue of $269.8m, up 12% SaaS Annual Recurring Revenue of $134.6m, up 32% Total Dividend of 12.88cps, up 8% Coronavirus has been kind to enterprise software company TechnologyOne (ASX: TNE), with the country’s market leader announcing its annual results to September 30 today with revenue, underlying… Read more »
Impact startup Like Family has raised $2 million in seed funding in a round led by Giant Leap Fund. Alberts Impact Capital and Pangaea Impact Investments also invested in Like Family (formerly Home Care Heroes) for its continued Victorian expansion and to grow the team. Jenna Leo and Mathieu Bertrand founded their NDIS-approved marketplace in… Read more »
Serial Australian entrepreneur Tim Kentley-Klay is back in founder mode two years after being fired from his autonomous mobility company Zoox, with a new robotics ventures that’s attracted support from mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest. His latest idea, launched this year, is HYPR – not to be confused with the US influencer marketing platform or… Read more »
Ruslan Kogan, CEO of Kogan.com, and his co-founder and CFO David Shafer have scored $75 million windfall after shareholders voted narrowly in favour of granting the duo 6 million share options at a fraction of the current share price. At today’s AGM, the deal, struck in May at an options share price of $5.29, was… Read more »
Video game production is worth around $250 billion annually, but Australia’s slice of that pie is tiny – just $114 million. It’s so paltry New Zealand’s games industry generates more revenue, while the UK and Canadian game development industries are 10 times bigger than Australia’s. The local sector believes it can easily become a $1… Read more »
New Zealand engineering startup ZeroJet is hoping to transform the boating industry by replacing outboards in a five year plan that would be like taking 1.5 million cars off the road. The Auckland-based company, founded in 2015 by Neil Mans and Bex Rempel, built the world’s fastest and lightest electric jet boat, with a top… Read more »
● Revenue of $26m, up 41% on H1 FY20 and ahead of prospectus ● Loan originations of $167m, up 33% on H1 FY20 ● Loan portfolio increased to $435m, up 42% ● NLAT (pro-forma) decreased to $3.4m, down 57% ASX-listed fintech Plenti Group Limited (ASX:PLT) released its inaugural half-year results as a listed company for… Read more »
The NSW budget is shouting the state a $250 million lunch, even as the 2021 financial year will post an historic $16 billion deficit as Treasurer Dominic Perrottet grapples with the impact of Covid-19 on Australia’s most populous state. The FY20 deficit was $6.9 billion. It will take until 2025 before the NSW budget is back… Read more »
Less than a year after “Australia’s best savings account”, the high interest rate on Xinja’s Stash savings account appears to be a millstone around the neobank’s neck, with the fintech slashing the interest-bearing cap by two-thirds to just $50,000 on any deposits. With the launch of Xinja US share trading platform Dabble now delayed indefinitely,… Read more »
New Zealand virtual pharmacy startup, ZOOM Health, which founder David Taylor calls the “Uber Eats of prescriptions”, is looking to raise NZ$3 million via Kiwi investing marketplace Snowball Effect. Taylor, ZOOM’s MD, founded the healthtech venture in 2017, targeting people on multiple medications who struggle to get to the pharmacy with a delivery option. “Whilst… Read more »
Software venture Marketplacer, which provides ecommerce solutions for leading Australian retailers such as Myer, Metcash and Bob Jane T-Marts, has raised $20 million as it plans to head to an IPO in early 2021. Founded in Melbourne in 2012, the company creates backend online marketplace software and raised $20 million 12 months ago in what… Read more »
Most people these days are aware that what they share online is both valuable and vulnerable. Data privacy has become a major concern for consumers and corporations alike. The issue will come to a head when New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 comes into force on December 1. The legislation replaces and updates the 1993 act.… Read more »
Prime minister Scott Morrison says Australians will be able to travel between all states and territories except Western Australia by Christmas thanks to a new agreement by the National Cabinet. WA easing restrictions WA has decided to continue to go it alone – although the state’s hard border will be scrapped from tonight with residents… Read more »
Creative marketplace Envato has hit a new benchmark, with its 81,000 content creators earning more than US$1 billion. Company chair and co-founder Collis Ta’eed, who last month stepped down as CEO last month, 14 years after launching the company, said they reached the milestone a year ahead of expectations. “The $1 billion goal has always… Read more »
With NAIDOC Week currently underway and celebrating the history, culture and achievements of First Nations people in Australia, we asked Dean Foley, founder and CEO of indigenous accelerator program Barayamal, to share his take on entrepreneurship in the Indigenous community and highlights up and coming entrepreneurs. Aboriginal and Torres Strait people have the oldest culture… Read more »
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