Niki Scevak
The story of Edrolo
The three founders of Edrolo – Ben, Jeremy and Duncan – left jobs at Google and Goldman Sachs to pursue their passion. They believed tha…
How a failed idea led to the birth of Vero
In our continuing video series on Startmate companies, here is the story of Vero. Success so often is measured in the dollars you have ra…
The story of Bugcrowd, from Startmate to San Francisco
There are many more bad people hacking computer systems than good ones helping them not get hacked. Each week it seems that some huge instit…
Happy Inspector: The story of one startup’s journey from Adelaide to San Francisco
When Happy Inspector (then known as Happy Landlord) first applied to Startmate they initially did not make it in as it was just Jindou himse…
Before ScriptRock: From scrappy startup to $10 million funding rounds
When Startmate began in 2011, I hoped that Australia’s best minds would increasingly choose to do startups instead of working at big compani…
The physics of startup financing
There is a fundamental paradox in the startup world: A lot more founders try to raise money than successfully do. But for those that do, …
Box: A capital raising journey
Box, the online storage company, filed to go public. More than most startups, Box reveals the awe inspiring Silicon Valley capital mach…
Years of experience doesn’t equal merit
The commonly held assumption to measure merit through years of experience is a fundamentally bad idea. Start-ups shines an especially …
The government is not to blame, you are
The state of the Australian start-up community is due more to the people not starting new businesses than the easy-to-blame government. …
Brains draining when it comes to covering Australian start-ups
It is a crying shame that some people in the local start-up community think playing on a world stage means a brain drain for Australia. If t…
