Posts tagged "Tractor Ventures"

As interest rates track ever higher, small businesses and startups bear the brunt.

Tech startup funding provider Tractor Ventures has moved to an all-women C-suite as Jodie Imam becomes CEO, alongside COO Aprill Enright and CFO Francine Hackett.

Tractor Ventures have voiced their intention to be a high volume funder in the Australia and New Zealand technology industry, with aims to distribute more than $1 billion in non-dilutive debt funding to companies that look the most like ‘tractors’: reliably operating and sustainably growing tech companies who utilise the additional capital to scale revenue-generating activities.

Jodie Imam explains why improving the gender funding gap is a priority for Tractor Ventures in funding many more women in the tech ecosystem.

Australian recipe app startup ReciMe has hit some huge milestones in 2023, including growing the platform from 20,000 to 400,000 users in just 12 months.

Exclusive: Scale Investors' Samar Mcheileh talks to SmartCompany about Equity Clear and its aim to transform startup funding in Australia through VC reporting transparency.

Tractor Ventures CEO Matt Allen opens up about its alternative lending platform, new 24 hour approval process and its upcoming equity fund.

Revenue: $3.75 million
Founders: Jodie Imam, Matt Allen, Aprill Enright
Head office: Brunswick East, VIC
Year founded: 2020
Employees: 1…

Every startup experiences growing pains, but it’s all part of the journey. At the Melbourne session of Scale Up: Growing your startup beyond a seed, founders came to learn how early stage startups (what AWS Startup Advisor Nikita Le Messurier called a ‘sticky-taped monolith’) can transform into world-beating businesses. Here are the headlines:

FuckUp Nights Melbourne, the popular storytelling event inviting startup and tech sector leaders to reflect on their professional missteps, is coming to an end — but not every ending is a failure, says co-founder and co-host Garry Williams.

The UK results of a large-scale trial of the four-day work week are in, and the results look very promising. Back home, two Australian business leaders share their experiences of similar success.

SmartCompany is pleased to announce the shortlisted entries for the Pitch, our early stage startup competition in Melbourne.