A List of Australian Startups That You Should Know About (Part 5): 101–125
This is an on-going list that I’m writing to help promote #startupaus. I hope you have enjoyed list one, two, three and four.
It is important to mention that there is no ranking system associated with any of these lists. Sometimes people might email me or I may discover these startups by chance. Whichever way — it is been compiled on the go.
For all of those that are in the Australian startup community, I strongly recommend you to subscribe to Paul’s News Bot (from Airtree Ventures). It shows a quick daily snapshot of what’s going on here in Australian tech. I love it & it’s super cool!
Startcon has a great weekly list of events happening in Australia curated by Cheryl Mack, which also be of interest to you. I find it hard to keep up to date on what’s going on — this list has at all.
Lastly, it would mean the world to me if you could subscribe to my weekly startup essays on ghacklabs. I am writing about some new theories that I have on startups — no spam, just great content once a week.
Here’s list 5— Introducing …
101. WealthNation: Save small. Live big. We round up your purchases to the nearest dollar to help you save for the things that matter to you. Start living the life of your dreams.
Website: https://www.wealthnation.com/
Cofounders: Jason Kaye and Tony Zakula
Email: jason@wealthnation.com
102. HashChing: Get more choice and savings on Australia’s first online marketplace for home loans. We negotiate for you.
Website: http://www.hashching.com.au/
Founder: Atul Narang
Twitter: @narangatul
Email: atul@hashching.com.au
103. Rounded: Everything a Freelancer needs. Rounded helps you send pro invoices, track your time and expenses, set your goals and relax at tax time.
Website: https://rounded.com.au/
Founder: Grant McCall
Email: grant@rounded.io
104. Academy XI: Upskill with short courses in design and innovation. Our expert-led courses and workshops are designed to help you learn, practice and embed new knowledge, preparing you to shape your career and change the world around you.
Website: https://academyxi.com
Cofounders: Ben Wong and Charbel Zeaiter
Email: change@academyxi.com
Special Mention: Academy Xi (is pronounced ex-eye)
105. Sparrow: The easiest way to book domestic flights on your phone. Sparrow learns how you like to fly, and predicts your next flight. Often fly on a Monday morning for your important business meetings? Love weekend getaways? Prefer to fly Virgin? Sparrow has you covered. And the more you use Sparrow, the smarter it gets.
Website: https://www.sparrowflights.com/
Cofounder & Director: David Shepherd
Email: info@sparrowflights.com
106. Mlkman: Delivery, but like way better. Order & eat within 45 mins & track your meal in real-time, no minimum orders we even give you a delivery ETA.
Website: http://www.themlkman.co/#modern-organic-thai
Cofounder: Jason Cross
Email: jason@themlkman.co
107. Aston Club: Pay at bars and restaurants with Aston Club and earn amazing rewards.
Website: http://astonclub.com.au/
Cofounder: Jason Cross
Email: support@astonclub.com.au
108. The Startup Hustle: Overcome your fear of the hustle.
Website: http://thestartuphustle.co/
Cofounder: Jason Cross
Email: https://twitter.com/TSHandGrind
109. QuizJam: Take on the World!The worlds first massively multiplayer trivia experience. Join the largest trivia tournaments in the world and play for your chance to be crowned the best in the world.
Website: https://quizjam.com/
Founder: Joel Steel
Email: joel@quizjam.com
Additional Remarks: QuizJam raised 750k pre rev, with the last raise based off a 3.3M post money valuation. They will be looking to open a series A in the coming months.
110. Joey Crowd: Disrupting the crowdfunding industry with a vision for new projects, investing, and a whole lot of sass.
Website: https://joeycrowd.com/
Cofounder: Nick Boniciolli
Email: nick@joeycrowd.com
Additional Remarks: Joey Crowd is embarking on a $6 million capital raise for the company. They expect to be complete within the next two months, and intend to have raised an additional $4 million by September.
111. Upspot.io: Build better teams. A platform that drives company culture from the team up.
Website: http://upspot.io/
Cofounders: Lee Jiang & Ricky Marcon
Email: lee@upspot.io
112. Pocketbook: Stop wasting hours of your time categorising transactions. Use Pocketbook to do it automatically.
Website: https://getpocketbook.com/
Cofounder: Bosco Tan
Email: bosco@getpocketbook.com
113. Ideocial: An innovation platform allowing your team to generate new ideas and solve real-world business problems.
Website: https://www.ideocial.com/
Founder: Benjamin Elias
Email: b.elias@ideocial.com
114. Whizz: An uber fresh approach to cleaners.
Website: https://whizz.com.au/
Founder: Mark Bernberg
Email: info@whizz.com.au
115. Village Infrastructure: Lending small solar power stations for household lights and community mills to off-grid villages that lack access to electricity.
Website: http://www.villageinfrastructure.org/
Founder: Stewart Craine
Email: info@villageinfrastructure.org
116.Student Tax Buddy: Claim your tax and super back the easy way with Australia’s number one resource for International students.
Website: http://www.studenttaxbuddy.com/
Founder: Carlos Villanueva
Email: hello@studenttaxbuddy.com
117. Kingdom Hack: Kingdom Hack is a nationally focused multidisciplinary Hackathon which will bring together competitors to participate over 24 hours to make something amazing and win some awesome prizes.
Website: https://www.kingdomhack.com/
Cofounders: Benjamin Darbyshire, Steven Cooper, Stewart Wilson and Joshua Brown
Email: contact@kingdomhack.com
118. Startup Soda: A daily hand curated email of the best news, blog posts and tactical resources from Australian Startups, Founders & VC’s.
Website: http://www.startupsoda.com.au/
Founder: Paul Towers
Email: info@startupsoda.com.au
Additional Remarks: Dubbed the ‘Mattermark’ for Australian tech.
119. Anywhere Tax: Complete your tax in 5 minutes. Anywhere Tax is the easiest way to do your tax in Australia. Just snap, send and relax. We’ll take care of the rest.
Website: http://anywheretax.com.au/
Founder: Carlos Villanueva
Email: hi@anywheretax.com.au
120. Bahama Brown: Your new natural organic self-tan sensation.
Website: http://www.bahamabrown.com/
Cofounder: Dr. Helder Marcal & Matt Kocaman
Email: enquiries@bahamabrown.com
121. C4stle: A custom computer something that you can fully customise according to your needs and aesthetic preferences. Simply, building a c4stle is pretty much like building Lego and each c4stle is like your personal Millennium Falcon.
Website: http://www.c4stle.com/
Founder: Jeremy Sim and Robin Tiang
Email: build@c4stle.com
122. Valuiza: Real-time client feedback connected to your bottom line. Know what your clients think. Measure the financial impact — take action.
Website: https://www.valuiza.com/
Founder: Dr. Ray McHale
Email: info@valuiza.com
123. SkedGo: Technology to travel smarter. SkedGo provides unique tech solutions for today’s transport and travel challenges. Our award-winning apps and white labels help people worldwide with planning trips, while saving time, money and carbon.
Website: https://skedgo.com/
Founder & CEO: Claus von Hessberg
Email: support@skedgo.com
Additional Remarks: SkedGo will be providing technology for the upcoming Olympics in Rio.
124. Disrupt: Your gear your way. Bespoke designed sports gear.
Website: https://www.disruptsports.com/
Cofounders: Gary Elphick and Chris Bailey
Email: info@disruptsports.com
Additional Remarks: UK-born citizen and Disrupt COO Chris Bailey was detained at Sydney airport earlier this week and held at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for two days before being deported back to his home country.
125. Hackathons Australia: Central hub for hackathon organisers, participants, sponsors, partners, and government.
Website: http://www.hackathonsaustralia.com/
Founder: Angela Bee
Email: marketing@hackathonsaustralia.com
If there are any startups on this list that would like any information changed, please email me via: luke@ghacklabs.com. And, if you are an Australian startup that would like to be featured on the next upcoming list — feel free to email me, and i’ll happily include you.
About me: The $1 Startup Advisor (please test this out), writes sometimes at Startup Daily, Startup Smart, Geektime, Medium , Ghacklabs, Shushnote and has guest lectured at Sydney University on Startup Theory.
