Startups
A Brisbane fintech startup — 22 people, Series A closed nine months ago — takes a call at 4:47am on a Sunday from a customer whose CFO has spotted a mailbox rule redirecting invoices to an external …
A Sydney B2B SaaS founder signs a $58,000-a-year enterprise contract with a mid-tier logistics group. The Master Services Agreement is the founder’s standard-form paper — twelve pages, drafted …
A Sydney hardware startup ships twenty prototype units to an enterprise customer in November on a “paid pilot” arrangement — the customer pays a $2,500 evaluation fee, keeps the units for …
A Sydney SaaS founder issued forty options to two engineering hires last September under the start-up concession in section 83A-33 of the ITAA 1997. His accountant told him the grant was tax-free at …
A Sydney fintech founder has just closed his seed round and wants to bring on his first four engineering hires. He offers each of them an option package: 40,000 options over four years, exercise price …
A Melbourne climate-tech founder is halfway through a $2.4 million pre-Series A. She has closed the lead and about half the balance from warm intros. To fill the round she pulls a list of 180 …