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Ecosystem data provider for Australian fintechs
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Fintech Australia raised.
Companies Fintech Australia acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Cathryn Lyall | Non-Executive Director (former) | Australian FinTech, FinTech Australia (peak body) |
| Rebecca Schot-Guppy | CEO (former) | Startup Daily |
| Simone Joyce | Chair (former) | Startup Daily, SmartCompany |
| Stuart Stoyan | Chairman (former) | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Fintech Australia. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Weekly people-moves column: new executives at allt, SQC, Redbelly Network, InDebted and Neara, including Clive Dickens joining allt's board and Chris McNamara becoming InDebted's CEO.
Swyftx has made Andrea Yuen permanent CEO and Cathryn Lyall Chair. Yuen moved up from CFO and interim Co-CEO; Lyall, a Seed Space Venture Capital partner, steps up from interim Chair.
Enterprize Tasmania has appointed Brian Collins, deputy chair of FinTech Australia and co-founder of fintech fund Triple Bubble, as CEO, with the ten-year-old organisation seeking national and global reach for the state's startup ecosystem.
Australian crypto brokerage Swyftx has made Cathryn Lyall its permanent Chair and Andrea Yuen its CEO, with co-founder Alex Harper stepping back from interim co-leadership to his board role.
JustFund, a Sydney lender covering legal costs in separations, has disclosed a $5.7 million seed round led by Xilium Capital, plus venture debt and mezzanine funding from family offices.
Fintech Superhero has brought back one of its earliest employees, Rachel Hopping, to serve as its first head of strategy, following her time at Fintech Australia. She reports to cofounder and CEO John Winters.
Online home loans marketplace Joust adds Virginia Marshall and Stuart Stoyan as non-executive directors, drawing on their banking and fintech backgrounds at Westpac, SocietyOne, MoneyPlace and Fintech Australia.
Square Peg's investment note explains its A$5.5m Series A backing of AgriDigital, a grain supply-chain platform, citing its blockchain first and a founding team with deep agriculture experience.
IAG's venture arm Firemark Ventures has committed a $75 million second fund, already deployed into Texas 3D imaging startup Plnar; earlier backing included UpGuard, Myriota, Hyper Anna, Airtasker and Life360.
Also Startup Daily
Commonwealth Bank has bought a fifth of Australian payments fintech Paypa Plane to improve SME payments, while the article also notes MYOB's recent acquisitions of Nimbus and Tall Emu and partnerships with Butn and Valiant.
Also Startup Daily