Mark Hurley

Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led venture capital fund that backs the top 1% of founders in Australia at the earliest stage. We write small cheques into the best early stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale. We are a team of founders who have backed and built two Australian unicorns, raised over $200M from some of the best VC’s in the world, been acquired by Apple, bootstrapped to $20M + revenue and built Australia’s first dedicated revenue-based startup investment fund. We started investing together, as a syndicate, alongside a community of 100+ founders and operators and now we’re building the seed fund that we wish we had when we were starting out.

Marloo is an AI assistant transforming how financial advisers work.

Ryft is a venture studio. We love building and growing companies — from early validation to market launch, capital raising, growth, and exit events.

Beautiful, affordable & always-on brand tracking. Tracksuit is the common language for companies to measure and communicate the value of brand. We’re on a mission to get brand data in every boardroom. Join us on the track 👇

Narrative speeds up, improves and simplifies the professional photographer’s workflow with smart and easy to use software tools.

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From ideas to impact: Unify people and decision makers. Make the best decisions using the best data. Joyous builds human relationships, and aligns people around common challenges, leveraging their ideas to make an impact. Human Conversations and AI Analytics in one Joyous helps people talk about a specific topic that impacts them every day - right at the time decision makers are planning to do something about it. Joyous starts conversations and a real person responds. Joyous identifies actionable phrases, groups them in real-time and delivers a prioritized action plan. Joyous accelerates operational excellence, strategic program execution, transformation, tools adoption, customer experience and more.

Whip Around is an award-winning, easy-to-use fleet maintenance software company that connects drivers, mechanics and fleet managers to improve the uptime of vehicles and equipment. Founded in 2016, we are on a mission to keep the world’s fleets moving. We are committed to living and breathing our core values everyday. Our values are at the forefront of everything we do and are what is driving our success forward. Be the Best You By striving to be the best version of ourselves, we achieve collective success. Be the Driver In our passionate pursuit of excellence the work is never done. Adapt, improvise and overcome. Manaakitanga We warmly welcome and care for one another, creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. Always Bring Value We listen, understand our customers’ needs, and empower them to succeed. We have a great team culture and are always on the look out for our next Whip Arounder! Whip Around’s career pages can be found here: https://apply.workable.com/whiparound/?lng=en

First AML streamlines the entire anti-money laundering onboarding and compliance process. Backed by real expertise, its cloud-based KYC ‘passport’ allows complex entities to share their verification across multiple companies and geographies, at their discretion. Making an otherwise complex and manual onboarding process simple for end users and cost effective and compliant for businesses, First AML delivers efficiency and time savings, protecting reputations, and enabling companies to be on the right side of history in the face of global threats.

Sharesies is an empowering wealth app on a mission to give someone with $5 and someone with $5 million the same money opportunities. Since launching in 2017, we’ve grown to provide access to Invest, Save, and KiwiSaver all in one place. Now, over half a million people use Sharesies to invest in the share market—and their financial future. No one knows retail investors quite like us. We partner with companies to offer capital raises, and engage and reward their employees through Staff Shares. Find out more on our website—go to About > For companies. We’re a proudly certified B Corp and Living Wage Employer. Our goal is to help as many people as possible to grow their wealth, and together we plan to impact generations to come. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? Head to About > Careers on our website to see if there’s a role suited to you. 💁

Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led venture capital fund that backs the top 1% of founders in Australia at the earliest stage. We write small cheques into the best early stage companies. Then we lean in to help the founders build & scale. We are a team of founders who have backed and built two Australian unicorns, raised over $200M from some of the best VC’s in the world, been acquired by Apple, bootstrapped to $20M + revenue and built Australia’s first dedicated revenue-based startup investment fund. We started investing together, as a syndicate, alongside a community of 100+ founders and operators and now we’re building the seed fund that we wish we had when we were starting out.

Marloo is an AI assistant transforming how financial advisers work.

Ryft is a venture studio. We love building and growing companies — from early validation to market launch, capital raising, growth, and exit events.

Beautiful, affordable & always-on brand tracking. Tracksuit is the common language for companies to measure and communicate the value of brand. We’re on a mission to get brand data in every boardroom. Join us on the track 👇

Were helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. Use Caruso to delight your investors, raise more capital, improve operating efficiency and reduce risk.