#Seed Funding
Bookwell secures funding from Catch Group to scale beauty and wellness booking platform
Beauty and wellness booking platform Bookwell has completed a $1.25 million funding round led by Gabby and Hezi Leibovich, founders of homegrown ecommerce pioneer Catch Group, with a contribution from Jeremy Same and Adam Schwab, founders of Luxury Escapes. [Related: EatNow founders have raised $2.6m to launch “Menulog for beauty and wellness” Bookwell] The brainchild of […]
‘Social media users are hungry”: Gather Online receives $1m to grow its ‘Snapchat for groups’
Social networking startup Gather Online, which markets itself as ‘Snapchat for groups’, has accepted a $1 million seed investment from Brett Dawson and onboarded the former Dimension Data CEO as the chairman of its board. Based in Sydney, the social discovery and messaging platform boasts 40,000 active daily users and has now raised $2.5 million […]
“Faster-than-expected” growth sees Jonathan Lui raise $1.65 million for his property app Soho
Airtasker co-founder Jonathan Lui has raised $1.65 million in seed capital for his second venture, the “LinkedIn for property” app Soho. [Related: Solo with Soho: Jonathan Lui on following up Airtasker with a ‘LinkedIn for property’ app and Jonathan Lui shares what he has learnt from establishing his new startup SOHO overseas] The seed round, […]
Funding 101: Where does the money come from?
We just wrapped up our Kickstart Your Business Grant that received over 300 applications. The applications were a good indicator to how businesses were structured to grow by sourcing funding.
Start-Up Stock Exchange up and running
Following cash injections from Angel and Seed funding totaling some $775k, the Start-Up Stock Exchange (SSX) kicked off earlier this month – and so far six Aussie companies have listed.