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Love what the team at aglow are doing for the beauty industry and chuffed to be backing Karl, Jo & the team on their mission to improve the lives of beauty professionals. If the past few years have taught us anything, certainty of revenue is essential for these hard-working, creative, caring people and their families! 👏 📈

Very happy to be joining founders Richard and James in their mission to help the hospitality industry run more effectively. Richard and James started as owner/operators of a multi-site hospitality group and built Loaded as a software solution to solve the problems they experienced first hand. Today Loaded helps thousands of people in the hospitality industry to manage their revenue, labour & cost of goods in real time from one software hub.

Stoked to be backing Nick, Rowan & the team. Prosaic streamlines client tax returns by providing secure bank feeds from any personal account, with AI-powered expense detection and automatic categorisation. Having the robots find and code business expenses is the tip of the iceberg for this team and I'm very excited to see what's to come in the years ahead. 🤖

I’m delighted to be backing Co-founders Jen Liddle, Jacquie Udyavar and William Berger at Aeroplanned on their mission to level up the aviation industry. With over a decade each of planning roles in flight schools, Jen and Jacqui realised that there must be a better way and that it was time to throw out the unreliable spreadsheets used throughout the industry and build resource planning software that was tailored for flight schools. 🛫

I am thrilled to be backing April, Jodie and Matt at Tractor Ventures. I spend enough time with founders to know that they feel real pain when raising capital, and not all startups want to raise a massive cheque with massive dilution. Tractor Ventures provides a flexible, revenue based financing alternative for founders who want to lead profitable technology companies. If you're an AU/NZ based tech startup doing $15K+ MRR, looking for between $150k-$1.5m to fund a specific growth initiative, give the folks at Tractor a bell. Not only will they finance your start-up, their experienced team also provide strong support to the founding teams in their portfolio.

Dunedin

Co-founded Timely in 2011, providing booking and payments software for the beauty and wellness industry. An absolute privilege to serve as CEO for almost a decade, growing the team to 135 great people and working with tens of thousands of customers around the globe. Timely was acquired by EverCommerce in July 2021.

After the acquisition of BookIt, I worked at Trade Me to migrate their travelbug site onto BookIt. Bloody good place to work. Great bunch of people.

Co-founder of BookIt Limited. BookIt started trading in 2004 and provides booking and payment processing services to the travel and tourism industry.BookIt was acquired by Trade Me in 2010.

Taylormade Software Limited was a software development company specialising in the production of custom .NET applications and run in conjunction with Taylormade Media / Animation Research of Dunedin.

Senior Microsoft Software Developer, responsible for the design, development and implementation of in-house solutions and mentoring junior staff.

Joined Unisys Wellington as part of the graduate recruitment programme in 1999 and became a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.