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| 11.06.2025 | Clive Dickens launches TMT advisory firm The Meliora Company | Media veteran Clive Dickens has launched The Meliora Company, a new consultancy firm which will support business transformations in the TMT sector from bases in Sydney, London and Los Angeles.
Clive Dickens previously held senior leadership... |
| 03.04.2025 | The Benefits of Using a Full-Service Boston Moving Company | Share
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Getting the keys to your new house or office in Boston can be exhilarating, but overwhelming. From packing through moving, there are a million moving parts (all right, we couldn’t resist!). When it comes down t... |
| 03.04.2025 | Australian firms embrace Agentic AI to boost productivity | - |
| 19.03.2025 | Australian Startups Gain Strategic U.S. Market Entry Through New Initiative from Mercurius Media Capital | Strategic Support and Resources to Accelerate U.S. Expansion
SYDNEY, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercurius Media Capital (MMC) has launched Mercurius Bridge in Australia, empowering local startups and growth-stage companies with establis... |
| 20.02.2025 | Airtasker Partners with VCARB Formula One™ Team in World-First Collaboration | Airtasker partners with VCARB Formula One™ Team
Airtasker partners with VCARB Formula One™ Team
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Airtasker partners with VCARB Formula One™ Team
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| 18.12.2024 | Airtasker Receives $6M Investment from Mercurius Media Capital | Airtasker Limited (ASX: ART), a Sydney, Australia-based online marketplace for local services, received a $6M investment from Mercurius Media Capita.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its U.S. presence.
Founded by Tim Fung, Air... |
| 04.12.2024 | Business | 3 ways to earn an extra $500 for the holidays | At $16 an hour, you’ll need to put in 32 hours of work to hit the $500 mark — before taxes. But hey, you may like the customer interaction.2. Become a gig delivery driver
Delivery gigs aren’t known for high pay, but driving for a service li... |
| 23.05.2024 | 20 rising startups in Australia and New Zealand | Premium Content
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| 20.05.2024 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: Every week, I introduce you to a handful of Houston innovators to know recently making headlines with news of innovative technology, investment activity, and more. This week's batch includes a podcast with the founder of a ne... |
| 22.12.2023 | Airtasker sets its eye on China following $6.5 million raise | article-article-body
Airtasker’s $6.5 million raise will be used to boost product development but more importantly plan for the company’s expansion into Asia, according to co-founder and chief executive Tim Fung.
The latest capital injectio... |
| 22.12.2023 | Airtasker acquires Occasional Butler, explores overseas expansion | article-article-body
Australian job’s marketplace, Airtasker, has acquired Melbourne-based odd jobs outsourcing business Occasional Butler, cementing its lead as Australia’s leading online platform for outsourcing local services.
The servic... |
| 10.10.2023 | Uneasy Ground: The Shifting Tectonic Plates Of Hybrid Working | Many months on from the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are visible tensions between what workers want and what many leaders think is good for them. There’s a clear disconnect. |
| 16.11.2022 | 7 Communication Skills Remote Teams Should Master To Perform More Effectively | At the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies around the world were thrown into the deep end of an unplanned work-from-home experiment that took place on a global scale.
Now, more than two years later, and with the severity of the pandemi... |
| 29.08.2022 | 4 Lessons From Working Remotely That Business Leaders Can Take To Increase Team Productivity | Michael Ede, Entrepreneur, Football Agent, MD/CEO of Uplift11 Sports, U.K.'s fastest-growing sports management agency. |
| 15.06.2022 | It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How. | As educators, mental health professionals, and authors of a new book on helping students cut through stress and pave the way to purpose, we’ve spent our careers supporting students to manage their mental health and reach their potential. We... |
| 11.04.2022 | “Every year you get a different job”: Tim Fung’s advice to startups after 10 years at Airtasker | Tim Fung shares his experiences building a startup, the future of the gig economy, and advice to startups after 10 years at Airtasker. Source: supplied.
Airtasker founder and chief executive Tim Fung says being a startup founder based in Au... |
| 26.01.2022 | Houston software startup raises $12.5M series B | Houston-based Codenotary, whose technology helps secure software supply chains, has raised $12.5 million in a series B round. Investors in the round include Swiss venture capital firm Bluwat and French venture capital firm Elaia.
The $12.5 ... |
| 26.01.2022 | Houston startup secures big contract, coworking company acquired, and more local innovation news | Houston is starting 2022 strong in terms of innovation news, and there might be some headlines you may have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston startups and tech, the Bayou City is ranked based on its opportunities for S... |
| 25.01.2022 | Houston expert: How to thrive as an employer amid The Great Resignation | With Baby Boomers and older generations exiting the workforce in droves and COVID-19 variants still straining hospitals and doctors’ offices, the health-care industry is experiencing its own “Great Resignation” at a time when health-care oc... |
| 25.01.2022 | Houston 3D printing company closes latest round of funding, plans to hire | Roboze — an Italian high-performance 3D printing company with its U.S. headquarters in Houston — closed a multimillion-dollar round of funding this month with investments from an international group of leaders from diverse backgrounds.
Inve... |
| 19.01.2022 | New Ion exec focuses on building density, bridging the gaps within Houston innovation | After years of being in the works, The Ion Houston opened last year — but not in the way it was always hoping to. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the 300,000-square-foot space in the renovated historic Sears building in Midtown slowly opened it... |
| 19.01.2022 | Houston food charity scores prestigious Amazon tech grant | One of Houston’s most cherished food charities has been recognized for its tech prowess. Houston Food Bank has been awarded the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant.
The endowment honors “the vision and work of nonprofit organizations as... |
| 18.01.2022 | Greentown Labs appoints Houston founder among 4 new board members | Greentown Labs, a Massachusetts-based climatetech startup incubator with its secondary location in Houston, has appointed four new board members.
Of the new appointees, two community board members have been named in order to act as liaisons... |
| 18.01.2022 | Houston fund makes first local investment in $8M deal | A Houston-based investment fund has announced its its latest deal that includes an investment into a local direct-to-consumer supplement company.
GP Capital Partners has invested in Qualitas Health, known as iwi, which produces plant-based ... |
| 14.01.2022 | New Houston startup aims to be the next generation Costco | A new Houston startup is combining two modern conveniences — discounted bulk prices and delivery service — into one business model.
Gbowo is a membership service where users can get same-day delivery on discounted products across several ca... |
| 14.01.2022 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the Houston innovators to know, startups raising money, and ... |
| 13.01.2022 | Former Medtronic exec takes the helm of Houston med device startup | A Houston-based preclinical artificial heart device company has a new head honcho as it grows its team and further develops its technology.
BiVACOR named Thomas Vassiliades as CEO effective immediately. He replaces the company's founder, Da... |
| 12.01.2022 | Houston named a top market for remote tech workers, startup doubles its staff, and more innovation news | Houston is starting 2022 strong in terms of innovation news, and there might be some headlines you may have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston startups and tech, the Bayou City is ranked based on its ability to employ r... |
| 07.01.2022 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included the two startups that reached unicorn status in 2021, events... |
| 07.01.2022 | Houston startup raises $2.75M to make buildings more energy efficient | A Houston startup that retrofits windows with smart glass innovations to reduce energy use has raised its first round of funding.
INOVUES closed its seed round at $2.75 million last month. The oversubscribed round was led by Dallas-based Pa... |
| 06.01.2022 | City of Houston announces 2 new COVID mega-testing sites | With the omicron variant showing no signs of slowing locally or nationally, the City of Houston’s health department has partnered with a major company to open two mega COVID-19 testing sites this week, both opening on Thursday, January 6.
T... |
| 05.01.2022 | Houston-based real estate giant bets on growing life science sector | An international real estate firm announced recently that it would prioritizing investing in life science industry opportunities when it comes to commercial real estate development.
Houston-based Hines reported that the pandemic has heighte... |
| 04.01.2022 | 3 questions Houston business owners should ask themselves as they start the new year | Many businesses tend to focus solely on tangible metrics during annual reporting, such as revenue, new year budgets and customer satisfaction. What is often overlooked are internal aspects of the business (unless it is a problem), measuring... |
| 28.05.2021 | How to Use Your Calendar to be More Productive Everyday | May 28, 2021 8 min read This story originally appeared on Calendar
It can be challenging to stay productive when you’re no longer in an office surrounded by colleagues and managers. So, how do you keep track of everything you have to do?
Wh... |
| 02.02.2021 | Equity In The Workplace Requires Equity In Caregiving | Actor Colin Farrell is not just a celebrity. Perhaps more importantly, he is a loving caregiver to ... [+] his two sons.Getty Images |
| 05.11.2020 | 25 Ways To Make & Save Money During Lockdown | Getty |
| 16.08.2020 | 5 Tips To Grow Professionally While Working From Home | Working from home doesn't need to impede your professional development.getty |
| 02.04.2020 | Novice Remote Workers Find Clever New Ways To Stay Productive In Isolation | Finding the ideal home working routine has always been a challenge. But now, the added pressure of extraordinary circumstances–enforced remote work, anxieties concerning finances and the future, and being confined with family–is taking its ... |
| 21.01.2020 | 7 Factors To Bring Your Remote Team And Remote Customers Closer | Photo:Getty |
| 16.10.2019 | Modern cloud communications platforms are changing how work gets done | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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There’s a new workplace reality, and it demands the kind of digital transformation too many businesses are draggin... |
| 16.10.2019 | Modern cloud communications platforms are changing how work gets done | Presented by Dialpad
There’s a new workplace reality, and it demands the kind of digital transformation too many businesses are dragging their feet in addressing. Work has become agnostic in device and location, with employees increasingly ... |
| 21.03.2019 | Millennials might swipe, can't screw: Bunnings boss nails omnichannel | It was a just a single dot point buried in a 56 slide deck, but it spoke volumes to the real reason Bunnings has just hit the accelerator on its online store hard:
Digitally aware millennials, less natural DIY aptitude
That’s the blunt-as-a... |
| 09.03.2018 | Mad Paws, Australia’s Wag, raises $5M led by airline giant Qantas | SoftBank’s Vision Fund invested $300 million into dog walking app Wag earlier this year, and a new deal on the other side of the world is evoking similarities.
Mad Paws, an Australia-based startup that offers dog-walking, pet-sitting and ot... |
| 19.10.2017 | How gig economy workers will be left short of super | By Dale Boccabella, UNSW and Sarah Kaine, University of Technology Sydney
As a brave new generation of Australian workers enter the gig economy (such as Uber drivers, Deliveroo riders, etc), serious questions remain over how these workers w... |
| 13.10.2017 | Airtaskers Raises $33M in Funding | Airtaskers, a Sydney, Australia-based community marketplace for people to outsource tasks, find local services or complete flexible jobs to earn money, raised $33m in funding.
Backers included Seven West Media, Skyfield Capital, Exto Partne... |
| 05.07.2017 | Airtasker co-founder Jonathan Lui on life after stepping down from his role as head of the startup | Former Airtasker chief executive and co-founder Jonathan Lui. Source: supplied.
Airtasker co-founder and former chief executive Jonathan Lui has been immersing himself in the Singapore startup scene and taking time to be with family since s... |
| 14.06.2016 | Australia’s PromisePay, a payment platform for online marketplaces, raises $10M | PromisePay, an Australia-headquartered fintech startup that specializes in payments for online marketplaces, has raised $10 million in fresh capital for growth.
We wrote about the company when it landed $2 million nearly a year ago, and thi... |
| 07.06.2016 | Airtasker raises $22 million in Series B round led by Seven West Media to turn the brand into a household name | Sydney-based Airtasker has today announced the closing of a $22 million in a Series B round led by Seven West Media. Following on from a $6.5 million investment raise last year, the Series B has seen participation from existing investors in... |
| 24.05.2016 | Revenue of sharing economy platforms set to treble | Sharing economy revenues are set to triple, reaching $20 billion globally by 2020, says Juniper.
Sharing economy platform providers are likely to reap the benefits from an explosion in service uptake by the end of the decade.
This is accord... |
| 20.01.2016 | The NSW government is “putting a stake in the ground” by embracing disruption and the sharing economy | The NSW government has planted a “stake in the ground” and signalled a clear intent to fully embracing disruption and the sharing economy, minister for innovation Victor Dominello says.
The state government released a position paper on Tues... |
| 27.11.2015 | Israel inspires young Aussie entrepreneurs to be team players | Four young Australian entrepreneurs have returned from a trip to Israel with a shared mission: to make the ecosystem back home work as a team.
It was the first time that Australians took part in the Investec Young Entrepreneurs Trip; with P... |
| 04.10.2015 | Sharing economy only just getting going, says Airtasker’s Tim Fung | Australia will soon see a much more diverse and expansive sharing economy as more people begin to embrace two-way marketplaces, Airtasker CEO Tim Fung says.
The sharing economy, championed by the likes of startup giants Uber and Airbnb, wil... |
| 02.10.2015 | Sharing economy only just getting going, says Airtasker’s Tim Fung | Australia will soon see a much more diverse and expansive sharing economy as more people begin to embrace two-way marketplaces, Airtasker CEO Tim Fung says.
The sharing economy, championed by the likes of startup giants Uber and Airbnb, wil... |
| 14.09.2015 | Airtasker says the sharing economy is bigger than Uber | Governments and businesses need to start recognising the full potential of the sharing economy rather than just focusing on Uber, Airtasker chief executive Tim Fung says.
He says that it’s important the regulatory concerns surrounding the r... |
| 29.07.2015 | Preparation, practice and persistence – the perfect pitch recipe | Edrolo co-founder Duncan Anderson says he’s doesn’t think the startup’s team would have been able to raise money from investors without the help of mentors.
Edrolo is a graduate of the Startmate accelerator program, but differs from many St... |
| 10.06.2015 | Four Aussie startups tell how they beat the ‘trough of sorrow’ | Sometimes when you’re launching and running a startup it feels like nothing goes right, Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins says.
It’s a position echoed by a number of Australian startup founders. Founding a startup is hard. StartupSmart conta... |
| 21.05.2015 | Four tips to improve your company culture | The best kind of employee is one that goes that extra step to seek you out; even if that means hijacking your company Christmas party.
A couple of years ago, we posted a task for someone to help run our staff Christmas party. For those not ... |
| 12.05.2015 | Ben Nowlan – co-founder of Sherpa | website twitter facebook
Ben is an energetic, driven and methodical sales and marketing professional. A proven leader with entrepreneurial talent and a track record for getting results, Ben’s experience ranges from management consulting to ... |
| 08.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/8/15 | Twistlock, DJI, Cybereason, NatureBox, Twilio, AltSchool, Zenefits, Cursive Labs, Robinhood, Banjo
Seed stage
Twistlock, an enterprise security suite for virtual containers, raised $2.5 million in funding from YL Ventures.
Wag!, which provi... |
| 05.05.2015 | Airtasker sets its eye on China following $6.5 million raise | Airtasker’s $6.5 million raise will be used to boost product development but more importantly plan for the company’s expansion into Asia, according to co-founder and chief executive Tim Fung.
The latest capital injection, announced on Tuesd... |
| 01.05.2015 | Rax and James – Founders of Moneyball | website twitter facebook
Rax Huq and James Fitzgerald are the cofounders of moneyball.com.au. They are sports-mad guys who come from digital backgrounds, having met while working at Fairfax Media.
James was product director for the jewel in... |
| 22.01.2015 | Good news for startups as Aussies turn to flexible hours and additional income | More than 90% of Australians are looking for ways to supplement their income this year and startups are in a good position to reap the benefits, according to research released by job marketplace Airtasker.
The survey, conducted by Pureprofi... |
| 04.12.2014 | Melbourne startup Two Square Pegs matches entrepreneurs to mature-aged workers | Melbourne startup Two Square Pegs aims to create mutually beneficial relationships between new entrepreneurs and older professionals, by tapping into the skillset of highly experienced mature-aged workers, who in return, gain newfound value... |
| 08.10.2014 | Could ServiceLocale crack the market Sensis couldn’t? | Melbourne startup ServiceLocale has launched in beta, joining a number of startups looking to help consumers find and purchase what they want online.
While a platform like Airtasker allows users to find people to outsource tasks, and Onefla... |
| 25.09.2014 | Three ways to improve your pitch to investors | A common problem among startups when pitching is a poor understanding of their business model, according to Will Deane, managing director of Exto Partners.
Exto Partners is a diversified private investment firm based in Sydney and Deane see... |
| 28.08.2014 | Dom Goldsworthy – founder of Cloakr | Dom is a young entrepreneur from regional Victoria, who has been running his own businesses from an early age. At 16 Dom was part of a mobile DJ business in regional Victoria where they differentiated themselves from the competition by taki... |
| 10.07.2014 | Airtasker acquires Occasional Butler, explores overseas expansion | Australian job’s marketplace, Airtasker, has acquired Melbourne-based odd jobs outsourcing business Occasional Butler, cementing its lead as Australia’s leading online platform for outsourcing local services.
The service already claims 130,... |
| 08.05.2014 | The grey market is there for startups to capture: Airtasker chief | It turns out the casualization of labour is not a Gen Y phenomenon. At least, that has been the experience of one Australian startup.
When Australian small job listing marketplace Airtasker first launched they believed their target market w... |
| 24.03.2014 | Steve Glaveski – founder of HotDesk.com.au | Steve Glaveski is the founder of HotDesk, an online platform for connecting entrepreneurs, start ups and small businesses with unused office space that is affordable and professional, and helps to build a collaborative environment where peo... |
| 15.01.2014 | Tim Fung: My Best Tech | Tim Fung is the founder and CEO of Airtasker, a trusted community marketplace for people to outsource tasks, find local services or complete flexible jobs to earn money – online or via mobile. He is also a founder and director of Tank Strea... |
| 24.07.2013 | Michael Cindric – founder of Sentia and Doccy | Michael Cindric played soccer at the highest level as a junior and senior, going on to play for Sydney United in the NSL before it became defunct and is still playing Semi-Professional football for Sydney Olympic. Having worked as an IT con... |
| 16.07.2013 | Bosco Tan – Business Development at Pocketbook | Bosco Tan and Alvin Singh are the cofounders of Pocketbook – a Sydney based startup that’s building an application which makes managing your money ridiculously simple. They do this by aggregating a user’s bank accounts, credit cards, loans,... |
| 18.06.2013 | Tim and Jonathan – cofounders of Airtasker | Jonathan is a co-founder and COO of Airtasker and an avid supporter of the Australian start-up scene as a founder of Tank Stream Labs. Jonathan was a founding team member and the project manager for amaysim, a web-based MVNO, which achieved... |
| 28.05.2013 | Critical Arc wins pitching comp at Australia’s largest start-up conference | The team behind Critical Arc, a software for security management, has won the SydStart pitching competition today, beating 11 other finalists to win a prize package of expert consulting, education and prizes. Critical Arc also scored the hi... |
| 22.05.2013 | Airtasker Wants To Be oDesk Of Southeast Asia | Australian startup, Airtasker, is keen to expand out of its home country into Southeast Asia, which it says hasn’t been touched by large competitors yet.
The year-old startup provides job matching for freelancers and employers, similar to w... |
| 04.03.2013 | Five start-ups that are tackling life’s annoying problems | The ‘keep it simple, stupid’ principle may have been devised by the US Navy in the 1960s, but it’s a catchcry that has aided many business leaders over the years.
Speak to any start-up mentor and they will tell you one of the first things t... |
| 12.03.2012 | Airtasker | After completing a $1.5 million seed funding round, Airtasker is hoping to make itself known in its hometown of Sydney and then right across the country.
Founded by Jonathan Lui and Tim Fung, Airtasker is an online community marketplace tha... |
| - | Nearly half of all Brits are using a side hustle to make money | 46% of people in Britain are making a second income using side hustles, according to a report by digital marketplace Airtasker. The surge appears to be due to the economic disruption caused by the global coronavirus pandemic, with the repor... |
