| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.03.2026 | Australia's Best Workplaces™ for Women 2026 Have Been Announced | SYDNEY, March 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Great Place To Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, today announces the 2026 list of Australia's Best Workplaces™ for Women, recognising 50 organisations that have proven it's possible to d... |
| 25.03.2025 | Australian enterprises gear up for AI agent integration push | - |
| 03.02.2025 | Fintech boosts Australian small business by AUD $9bn | - |
| 08.11.2024 | The Surcharge Dilemma: Balancing Costs and Customer Loyalty in Regional Australia | In the picturesque towns of regional Australia, a quiet storm brews. Public holiday surcharges have become a common sight on restaurant bills, and they are not going away anytime soon. As the cost of doing business rises, small enterprises ... |
| 05.11.2024 | Public holiday surcharges here to stay as regional businesses battle rising costs | A streetscape in the Victorian town of Bright. Source: Alpine Shire / Facebook article-article-body
Pubs, restaurants, and cafes across regional Australia are unlikely to abandon public holiday and weekend surcharges any time soon, as the c... |
| 17.06.2024 | Small businesses exhausting their cash reserves, with one in three turning to personal funds | Source: Canva article-article-body
One in five Australian small businesses have exhausted their cash reserves, and nearly one in three owners are paying business expenses with their personal funds, according to fresh research from local len... |
| 23.09.2021 | “It hasn’t been easy.” How Crazy Nonna has powered through lockdowns with great Italian cuisine | From kitchen damage to bushfires to lockdowns, it hasn’t exactly been business as usual for the first two years of Joshua Abou-chedid’s Sydney restaurant Crazy Nonna Pizza Pasta Bar.
“I’ve never had this many grey hairs in my life,” Joshua ... |
| 20.09.2021 | Introducing your Australia’s Favourite Family Business 2021 finalists: Cast your vote now! | We called out to our community to nominate their best-loved businesses for our Australia’s Favourite Family Business competition in partnership with Prospa and the response was overwhelming.
There were so many awesome businesses nominated t... |
| 17.09.2021 | It’s national Family Business Day: How will you support Aussie family businesses in 2021? | September 17 marks National Family Business Day, a day to celebrate the hard yards of Australia’s family businesses, and the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Bruce Billson is urging everyone to get behind a local f... |
| 30.08.2021 | Nominations for Australia’s Favourite Family Business 2021 are now open | The search for Australia’s Favourite Family Business is back for its fourth year. This time Kochie’s Business Builders (KBB) in partnership with Prospa, will be giving businesses across the country their chance to shine, with the winner of ... |
| 17.08.2021 | The State Of Small Business Loans In Australia Amid New Lockdowns | August 17, 2021 5 min read This story originally appeared on ValueWalk
The world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic with some countries exhibiting more hardships than others. Australia in particular ranks as among the most lock... |
| 03.05.2021 | Global e-bike Innovator Zoomo Driving Electrification of Last-Mile Delivery, Backed by new AirTree investment | NEW YORK, May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Australian born e-bike innovator Zoomo, announces today it has secured $12 million from existing and new investors, led by top tier Australian VC, AirTree, as they expand into new markets and invest in ... |
| 03.05.2021 | Global e-bike Innovator Zoomo Driving Electrification of Last-Mile Delivery, Backed by new AirTree investment | NEW YORK, May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Australian born e-bike innovator Zoomo, announces today it has secured $12 million from existing and new investors, led by top tier Australian VC, AirTree, as they expand into new markets and invest in ... |
| 04.02.2021 | DroneDeploy Secures $50M to Accelerate Development Beyond Drones and Solidify Global Market Leadership | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading enterprise drone data company DroneDeploy today announced it has raised $50 million in Series E financing. The round was led by existing investors Energize Ventures and AirTree, with ... |
| 02.03.2020 | Prospa originated $920 million in loans last year, indicating an increasing interest in Australia's fintech ecosystem | Redeem now
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| 27.02.2020 | Online Lender Prospa Has originated over $1.4 billion in loans to date across Australia and New Zealand | Leading SME online lender Prospa Group Limited (ASX:PGL) has published results for the six months ended 31 December 2019 (HY20).
According to the Fintech, total loan originations for the 6 month period were $306.8 million, bringing originat... |
| 16.05.2019 | 2ND TIME LUCKY: Small business lender Prospa is raising $110 million in another IPO attempt | Fintech Prospa launched in 2012 after its co-founders grew frustrated with access to small business loans from traditional banks
The company is raising $110 million from institutional investors, valuing the business at $610m
Its backers inc... |
| 18.03.2019 | How South African startups are solving informal sector problems [Opinion] | A valid criticism of the country’s nascent startup scene is that the businesses that are being created are just thoroughly irrelevant to the actual needs of the country.
Entrepreneurs are often dazzled by the shiny things that come out of S... |
| 18.03.2019 | How South African startups are solving informal sector problems [Opinion] | A valid criticism of the country’s nascent startup scene is that the businesses that are being created are just thoroughly irrelevant to the actual needs of the country.
Entrepreneurs are often dazzled by the shiny things that come out of ... |
| 11.09.2018 | Fintech Prospa Ranks 6th in LinkedIn Top Startups List | Prospa says it has been named 6th on the 2018 LinkedIn Top Startups List. The list marks the 25 best startups to work for in Australia. Prospa adds that it is the top Fintech on the list as well.
Prospa is an online lender catering to small... |
| 06.12.2017 | Yellow Brick Road Adds Prospa to Lending Panel in Boost to Aussie Small Business | Yellow Brick Road has added online lender Prospa to its lending panel. The move was described as an effort to diversify its lending offerings for Australian small business customers. Yellow Brick Road is a full service wealth management com... |
| 30.11.2017 | Treasurer of Australia Scott Morrison Visits Online Lender Prospa’s New Office in Darlinghurst | Prospa, an online lender serving SMEs in Australia, had a visit from the Honorable Scott Morrison yesterday. The Treasurer of Australia help to open up Prospa’s new high tech Darlinghurst office, which apparently is quite large extending ov... |
| 10.10.2017 | 10 Fast Growing Fintechs in Australia and New Zealand | IDC Financial Insights today unveiled a list of 10 fast growing fintechs in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) as part of the broader FinTech 101 list for Asia/Pacific.
“IDC’s FinTech Fast 101” refers to the fast-growing fintech players in As... |
| 24.08.2017 | Australia Fintech Industry, Startups Gain Global Recognition | Australia’s fintech sector has come a long way. In just a few years, the nation has seen its fintech industry mushroom and emerge as a globally recognized hub.
Image credit: Fintech by martin louis via Flickr
Fintech is hot topic in Austral... |
| 05.06.2017 | Prospa founders: Why building a successful business goes far beyond the facts and figures | Prospa chief executives Beau Bertoli and Greg Moshal. Source: Supplied
SME lender Prospa recently won a number of awards at the inaugural FinTech Australia Finnie awards, including for the “best fintech place to work in Australia”. In this ... |
| 23.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 23 | Cirque du LBO
Fortune’s latest feature story, published this morning by my colleague Michal Lev-Ram, is about what happens when private equity takes over the circus. Specifically, TPG Capital and Cirque du Soleil, which the firm acquired in... |
| 22.02.2017 | Prospa Secures $25M in Growth Funding | Prospa, a Sidney, Australia-based online lender to small business, secured $25M in growth funding.
The round was led by AirTree Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to boost technology, expand product offering and its distribution... |
| 04.09.2015 | Prospa Secures $60M Series B Financing Round | Prospa, a Sidney, Australia-based online small business lender, secured an additional $60m in its Series B financing round.
Backers included Carlyle Group, Ironbridge Capital, Entrée Capital, Airtree Ventures and David Fite.
The company int... |
| 03.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 3, 2015 | Prospa landed $60M; Netskope secured $75M; Zivame raised $40M
Netskope,a company monitors and enforces policy over the sensitive data shared across the thousands upon thousands of cloud apps in use at businesses today, announced $75 million... |
| 03.09.2015 | Aussie record: Small business lender Prospa raises $60 million | The most important part of raising capital is making sure investors are properly aligned with your company, Prospa joint-CEO Beau Bertoli says.
Prospa has just closed what it says is the largest to capital raising to date by an Australia on... |
