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If you’re going for a job at Afterpay, Woolworths or Qantas, there’s one guaranteed commonality between all three experiences – your first interview is going to be with a bot.
Andy Gray and Tim Reed’s private equity buy-out fund Potentia Capital has made its first minority investment, backing 14-year-old construction tendering and procurement platform EstimateOne.
Early SiteMinder investor EVP and Aconex co-founder Leigh Jasper have placed their first bet of 2022, backing Brisbane-based digital freight forwarder Explorate.
A tech company instrumental in a suite of high-profile commercial property deals this year, Inspace, has now done a deal of its own. The company, which enables buildings to be viewed remotely in 3D, has banked $4 million in a pre-Series A raise led by Our Innovation Fund, with participation from Aconex founder Leigh Jasper, Investible and Artesian.
Afterpay's planned $39bn sale to Square will be the biggest tech software transaction in Australian history, and the nation's previous record holder - Aconex co-founder Leigh Jasper - has a lesson or two for co-CEOs Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen.
The who’s who of angel investors and tech-types have bought into parent support platform Circle In, which has already won a host of big name clients including Medibank Private, Atlassian and Culture Amp.
When Leigh Jasper was helping out in his dad’s car business, as a kid in north-eastern Victoria, he of course couldn’t foresee that he would create and build one of Australia’s great innovation success stories of recent years.
Tenant portal Equiem will expand into 157 buildings across the UK including London’s flagship office towers The Shard and The Gherkin after the Melbourne-founded company acquired the software platform of FTSE-listed British Land for an undisclosed sum.
Australia’s first secondary venture capital fund, SecondQuarter Ventures, which buys out parts of existing stakes in start-ups, has banked another $21 million for its first fund, as appetite from early investors and founders to realise some of their gains soars.
Leigh Jasper-backed procurement tech company VendorPanel has added a range of big-name backers to its share register in a $4.5 million round, including Ord Minnett and renowned start-up investor Andrew Sypkes.
