• Our Little Foxes

  Led · Equity · Feb 2016

  Our Little Foxes offers monthly craft and activity boxes for children aged two to ten via a subscription model. The Sydney-based startup was launched in April last year and was described as born from an "epic failure." It was recently accepted into Telstra's muru-D accelerator. The company has secured a further $130,000 in funding as it looks to grow. Investors were persuaded by the co-founders' prior experience in business, content creation and as parents. Our Little Foxes plans to rapidly expand into China and to test new marketing channels.

• CompeteShark

  Led · Seed · Sep 2015

  CompeteShark is a web app that visually tracks content changes on websites in real time. It instantly notifies users when targeted website content changes, including A/B tests, headlines, and updated copy. The tool also aggregates data to provide digital marketers and brand managers with insights on customers and competitors. At the time of reporting the product was still in beta testing and had attracted trial clients such as Suncorp, RedBalloon, and Australian Unity. Financially, CompeteShark secured a $150,000 stake from Sydney Seed Fund. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or detailed future plans beyond the beta-stage testing and trial clients.

• Qwilr

  Participated · Seed · May 2015

  Qwilr provides a platform for document design and automation. Its core product centers on creating and automating documents. The company raised $7.25 million in a Series A round. The round was led by venture capital firm AirTree Ventures. The article did not provide operating metrics such as revenue or user counts. No future plans or use of proceeds were disclosed in the article. Qwilr converts static PDFs and sales documents into interactive, mobile‑friendly webpages and provides analytics on viewer behavior. The product integrates with third‑party services such as Slack and Zapier and offers a limited free tier with paid plans starting at $39 per month. The company says it has been used by more than 40,000 businesses across 80 countries and has helped generate over $250 million in quotes for customers, including Zillow and Colliers. Qwilr plans to bolster its product, engineering, and marketing teams and expand its global reach, having already made hires in the U.S. and aiming to open a North American business development office. The recently announced $1.5M financing will fund those product and expansion efforts. Qwilr is a Sydney-based startup that converts business documents into webpages, giving users access to analytics and other tools. Its platform lets users turn pitch decks and proposals into webpages using templates that support text, photos, Google Maps, videos, cloud integrations, and price-quote insertion. Co-founders Mark Tanner and Dylan Baskind developed the product from Baskind’s freelance template work; Tanner was formerly a strategic partner development manager at Google. Qwilr has focused on packing features into a free version to acquire users; its biggest users have over a thousand documents in their accounts. The company raised AUD $500,000 (about $395,000) in seed funding from investors including Sydney Seed Fund and Macdoch Ventures and will use the capital to build a premium version with deeper analytics and interactive features such as e-signatures and buy buttons.

• Oneflare

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2014

  Oneflare operates an online marketplace that connects users with experts in categories such as concreting, renovating, painting and cleaning. Founded in 2011, the platform reports about 1.3 million monthly visitors and 80,000 registered businesses and has doubled in size from the prior year. Management emphasizes reviews and trusted customer experiences as a key competitive differentiator. The company secured a strategic partnership with Fairfax’s Domain Group that includes investment and product integration into Domain’s 'ownership' section. Funding will be used to build out products, support a hiring growth spurt, and for marketing. Oneflare positions itself as one of two leading players in the Australian tradie marketplace as competition intensifies. Oneflare operates an online marketplace where consumers post jobs free of charge and receive competitive quotes from vetted local businesses. The platform hosts over 70,000 registered businesses across more than 200 categories and draws more than 1.3 million unique visitors per month. Following acquisitions of Renovate Forum and WOMO, Oneflare has access to roughly half a million consumer reviews. FY15 revenue grew 300% year‑on‑year, and the company expects revenue to triple in FY16. The start-up, launched in early 2012, has a 40‑person team based in Sydney and offers a guarantee on services booked through verified businesses. Management says the new funding will be used to expand the team with a focus on technology, sales and customer support as it prepares for an IPO. Oneflare is an online and mobile local-services marketplace founded in 2011 in Sydney, Australia. The site lets users request multiple quotes from pre-vetted providers across more than 200 categories, including cleaners, electricians, plumbers, painters, accountants and gardeners, and links customer reviews to completed transactions. It verifies providers via Australian Business Numbers (ABN), licenses, insurance and qualifications, and offers guarantees including up to AUD$500 for home damages and a AUD$50 on-time bond. The company reports 50,000 registered businesses and about 500,000 unique visitors per month, and says AUD$55 million of jobs have been requested through the site to date. Oneflare says it has tripled revenue over the last year and seen a 300 percent increase in total traffic over the past 12 months. The startup plans to use the new capital for hiring, sales and marketing, and international expansion.

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