Company
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Wisr raised.
Companies Wisr 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anthony Nantes | CEO and Founder | Startup Daily, Australian FinTech (19 Apr 2022), Australian FinTech (29 Mar 2022), Australian FinTech (17 Dec 2021) |
| Cathryn Lyall | NED (former) | Australian FinTech (3 Sep 2026), FinTech Australia (peak body), Australian FinTech (29 Mar 2022), Australian FinTech (17 Dec 2021) |
| John Nantes | Chairman | Australian FinTech (29 Mar 2022), Australian FinTech (17 Dec 2021) |
| Kate Whitney | Non-Executive Director | Australian FinTech |
| Matthew Brown | Non-Executive Director | Australian FinTech |
Stories naming Wisr. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
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.
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.
Investor engagement platform Fresh Equities, now called InvestorHub, landed a $4 million round led by Sydney venture firm EVP, having previously collected $2.3 million in 2021 from fintech founder angels and two other backers.
Corporate-card fintech Archa closed a $24 million pre-Series A round of debt and equity led by Wisr's Anthony Nantes, and secured a new institutional debt facility from Roadnight Capital.
Also Techboard
Wisr has appointed Marley Spoon marketing chief Kate Whitney as a non-executive director from April 2022, following Cathryn Lyall's January appointment and lifting female board representation to 40%.
ASX-listed lender Wisr has added Cathryn Lyall, a veteran of exchanges and Deutsche Bank's UK board, as a non-executive director from January 2022, its second board addition in months.